The NoStarch books are excellent overviews for newbies to go beyond being “just a user” though. They’re written in a very friendly and approachable manner. If you’re enthusiastic about learning how the OS works and playing with commands, they’re really good about that! I think it’s cool OP is repping rhem. :)

If someone was like “Hey I wanted to try Linux!” and thought they needed to go through LPIC/LINUX+ doorstoppers or had manuals about the kernel or something, I’d be like “Woah there. Calm down.” LOL

When I bought a book on Linux, I followed it chapter by chapter then when I got to chapter 6 or something none of it matched my OS and I was lost again. It was really bad for a modern book.

I did learn a lot from the book, but quite discouraged after getting lost there.

About a year or 2 later I went full time in Linux after the windows Recall and their One drive was stealing all my files when it was disabled. I saw the sync icons all over my desktop with the computer idle. Last straw and I switched to Linux for good.

!unixsocks@lemmy.blahaj.zone without thigh highs*

I’m enby so it’s just a matter of time

There’s always one lol

Documentation is not the proper place for an absolute beginner to learn (unless it explicitly has tutorials, and even then they’re not always great).

Those books were published in 2019 and 2021. They’ll still be mostly accurate a decade from now. Open-source developers usually try not to introduce breaking changes to mature software unless absolutely necessary.

Schotts actually provides TLCL for free, and last updated it a month ago:

https://www.linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php

Books will teach the essentials: my core UNIX knowledge comes from an SVR4 book I read in the late 2000s (a decade or more after it was relevant) and it’s still applicable today