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It's probably a bad idea to learn Blender right at this moment.
If you dive into it with 2.79, you will get frustrated later on when 2.80 is finalized with all the stuff you have to re-learn and also because the new version is a fuckton easier especially for newcomers.
If you jump right into 2.80, on top of your noob problems you ALSO have to deal with obscure bugs and every time something strange happens you don't know if you just did something wrong of if some bug did some bullshit.
If I was you I'd either wait until around August, after they had that huge programmer meetup+ code cleanup and then dive straight into 2.80 or go for 2.80 now and tinker around with it without any expectations and to keep the frustration low.

inb4 super smart
>it's always a bad idea to learn Blender
reply. It's totally fine if you're an hobbyist or freelancer to some degree. The toolset it has is absolute adequate for this and the main problem professionals is the lack of actual customer support and reliable work pipelines between other big name programs. Also their texture painting tools suck big time still but that's about it.