My two cents...one of the benefits of learning the Microsoft stack is that there is a lot of vertical coverage in books about it...e.g. a book on C# will often cover everything from arrays and loops to RSS syndication and processing http under asp.net.
Linux could be similar, but there really isn't the market share to drive the same level of dead tree publishing for beginners nor a single source to facilitate the same sort of vertical organization of books.
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My two cents...one of the benefits of learning the Microsoft stack is that there is a lot of vertical coverage in books about it...e.g. a book on C# will often cover everything from arrays and loops to RSS syndication and processing http under asp.net.
Linux could be similar, but there really isn't the market share to drive the same level of dead tree publishing for beginners nor a single source to facilitate the same sort of vertical organization of books.