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There’s a million guides that tell you how to make the jump from Windows to Linux, and as many distros that claim to be ‘newbie’ or ‘Windows user’ friendly. The elephant in the room, however, is that if Windows is English, and Linux is Spanish, these guides are the equivalent of Babelfish: possibly adequate, but not as good as learning the actual language.

There’s an interesting article at builder.au that basically begins with the premise I’ve described above. It points out the fundamental differences between the two OS’s, but tries to describe the two in eachother’s terms. It is by no means an unabridged guide, but it is a pretty good place to start if you’ve never cracked the seal on a Linux distro.