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Hello guys, sorry for the spam about me getting a raspberry pi, but i wanna do much things with it, one of them is learn linux.

So, i will use it mainly for watching movies on my tv, and make it a smart tv if possible, but i dont know much linux, can it play like mp4 or avi or any other common video files?
Im close to 0 in this linux thing.. How can i learn the basics and stuff quickly?

Thanks

wait till you get it then you will see. It has a full windows style GUI. There is a ton you can do with it. Best way to learn is to start using it though.

I have it now, but i need to wait for my sister to gtfo of the living room for the HDMI tv

i already put the Raspbian in the SD Card, its ready for deployment, and i've seen a tutorial in my language that goes through the boot and some options, because raspbian boots on shell by default and i need to change something to put it with a GUI.

just type startx

wtf, i used win32 disk imager and it corrupted my sd card -.- it saYS NOW that it has 50mb available.. and it's a 2gb card..
Do you know other method to put the OS in the SD?

Its fixed now, one question halls, im already in the GUI desktop and its super windows like, but my web browsers are not working like i want.. sometimes on youutbe a message shows up saying the buttons couldn't be activated...

Is there a better web browser?

I have not used any of the web browser really. Maybe mozilla ?

Chromium. Chrome for Linux. A must have

After 2 hours i start getting how linux works..

If i want to install something i type in terminal "sudo apt-get install <package>"

I'm having a problem, since i want this for movies im looking for a movie player, that plays mp4, avi etc. I googled and people say to use omxplayer that comes in raspbian already, i tried but it doesn't have sound and besides it goes full screen and i cant shut it down until the movie ends.. Also when it goes full screen the screen stays black with that effect that a window is used to "clean" the screen to its initial state.
Any help?

I found it very hard to learn linux from scratch.. there's only half knowledge guides..

Linux is just a huge topic. No one can really make a 100% Linux tutorial, just like no one could do the same for Windows or OSX.

As far as the video player, I am sorry I really don't know what to do about that. The video player that comes pre-installed with Ubuntu is excellent. How about trying to get VLC? It comes on Linux.