Learn Ubuntu with Hackett and Bankwell
I’ve been a GNU/Linux user for about a decade now. I started seriously using it back in the wild days of Red Hat 5.2, although I did have that “experiment” with that stack of Slackware floppies, but I won’t really count that. Back then, GNU/Linux absolutely deserved a lot of the criticisms it received: it was hard to use, it was a pain to configure, and interoperability with more mainstream protocols and file formats was a crap shoot at best.
Getting new users to appreciate GNU/Linux and Free Software remains something of a challenge. There’s a bit of a culture shift, which occurs for everyone at a different pace, but there’s more to it than that. There’s a lot to learn about GNU/Linux, and it’s been my experience that the sheer volume of information is overwhelming for people. I’ve not had much success on my own breaking it down into bite-sized chunks. Tech books are usually too technical, and the rate of change within the software world renders most printed books obsolete almost before they’re printed.
Enter Hackett and Bankwell, a new comic book geared at introducing GNU/Linux — specifically Ubuntu GNU/Linux — to new users.
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