I am keeping BOTH 2.79b and 2.8 beta on my PC, because I oftentimes download blend files from websites and I’d like to open them in either version. When 2.8 stable gets launched, I will still keep 2.79b on my computer.
As to learning 2.8, it is really one step at a time. If I find 2.8 too daunting to learn, I just view tutorials and simplify everything by using digital notebooks via Google Slides. I take screenshots of tutorials and attach brief notes to them.
