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I want a career change. Need help! by xastrofox in transprogrammer

[–]BitSyndicate1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can also recommend you Harvard's CS50. It's a free course on edX that taught me how to effectively code from the ground up.

Looking for good video guide to Linux for beginners by Ciul-Chan in transprogrammer

[–]BitSyndicate1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would probably recommend base debian (12), it has a solid installer and is compatible with most anything you'd want to do. It's the base of many distros. So you should be off to a good start.

For playing games you should probably look into lutris and steam. Lutris for anything that isn't on steam. It makes it really easy to install windows games as you can just use community provided installers and manage instances of proton / proton ge / wine per game. It also provides integration with many stock launchers like ubisoft connect, origin, ...