It's honestly the same as with Windows - search engines and manuals.
When you get stuck explain what you want to do, what you've tried and what guides/manuals you've used and you'll get good responses from most of the linux communities.

Anywhere on the fediverse. You just start your question with "windows was much easier than Linux because ..."

XKCD called this geek sniping. Its like a glitch in the minds of Linux dweebs.

You could try these:
!linux4noobs@programming.dev
!linuxquestions@lemmy.zip

Forums got replaced by reddit and stackoverflow, which both turned to shit after gaining dominance.

Stackoverflow still can answer most of the Linux administration questions that do not involve writing a custom piece of software.

The single best technical resource (aside from man pages) I know of is the Arch Linux Wiki which despite it's name has a lot of stuff applicable to any distro.

This helped me a lot. Install a RSS reader on your Linux, and start following Linux blogs. They explain everything and you will learn about the newest technologies from people who work on Linux

• Its Foss - they focus on becoming better Linux/privacy user

• OMG Ubuntu!

• Fedora Magazine

and many more.

If you see interesting information, look if they have a RSS feed and add them to your list.

You will learn and become knowledgable over time. They will do the effort and try to explain everything, you just have to read what they write

I don't ask open questions unless I'm really really stuck. I utilize man pages ( manuals for a particular command) to get a feel for the surface level options then use my search fu. Doesn't have to be Google. There are plenty. And there is a plethora of sites out there with answers for just about any newbie questions you may need. The sometimes difficult part is deciphering what works and what doesn't (see below) Personally being able to RTFM and read what others have done I feel more accomplished than asking someone out there to help every time. What works for one user may or may not work for you.

One strong suggestion. For the particular task you are learning, keep a journal of what works and what doesn't . There are lots of ways to customize your system IF you want to. That being said there are plenty more ways to mess your system up. So having a log of what works allows you to do a fresh install and get you back to before you messed things up. OR make a back up of your current config, something like timeshift or the like, so it's even easier to get back to tinkering.

Here might not be a bad place. If nothing else, be pointed in the right direction. Any specifics of what you want to know about?

Just have fun with your machine, learning is better when you are not forced to read the fucking manual. Of course you might need to do it but do it when you have the time on something you need to.

Of course distro-related forums are a great place to start, the legendary Arch Linux Wiki is a great place (even for other distros) and I know this might be contreversial but LLMs nowadays can be useful at explaining these kind of stuff to you, especially if you feed them the adequat ressources.

how to do this, best ways to achieve that etc

Often there is multiple best ways to achieve stuff and people are not agreeing on how. Of course there is often consensus on how NOT to do but doing and learning is better in my opinion than not doing because you're scared it's not the best way. Just do it!

https://tldp.org/

For me, the Linux community at the programming(dot)dev instance is very helpful!

Always check the relevant wikis. Yes, some of them aren't very well-written, but most are very good. Look at the wikis for your distro, the software you want to use, etc. Even if you don't use Arch, the ArchWiki is a very good source with steps that can apply for most distros!

You might also want to check out the channel "LearnLinuxTV", they make fantastic tutorials for setting up various distros and self-hosted services.

I will also recommend installing "tldr", which is basically manpages for dummies, showing you the essential commands and their parameters. "Tealdeer" is a Rust-based client for tldr that is available on Arch (unsure about other distro families)

Honestly, I used to seek out Linux for beginners, Linux for dummies, and Linux+ guides. It's all relatively similar information. The first two may start a little lower and the Linux+ guide should dig a bit deeper.

Do web searches for terms that you don't understand, and feel free to ask when you have conflicting information. We love to answer questions where you already tried solving it yourself and bicker about the answer.

The only real way to learn is by repetition, just like anything else.

Find a goal, read up on it, make a goal, and get cracking.

I understand I'm going to get downvoted and hated for this, but AI.

It's amazing. Basically I started with Linux, set up everything, gamed, set up a server, jellyfin, torrents, nextcloud ( fantastic btw, so so happy with this), all over cloudflare ( didn't even know what that is before), webserver. I host a bunch of stuff now for my climbing club. I moved all my services to some open source stuff that ai helps me install and use.

I have zero time to research this stuff on me own with the family and work, bit I did All this stuff. It's amazing.

Next I'm buying a bunch of sensors and connecting them to the server and I want to have an app that shows what's going on with temperature and humidity and microwave movement sensor,... I have no idea how any of this will work, but I'm confident I will do it which is just bizarre really.

Linux is awesome, ai is awesome too help me do all this stuff.