I can't say for sure, Frenchy. I was able to accomplish more basic things on my own with bforartists, but my brain just does not compute Blender's ideology.
There are quite a lot of articles and videos that go over the differences though.
Blender 2.79: couldn't agree more. Very difficult to learn and use.
Blender 2.8: complete GUI overhaul. Very easy to learn and use. Plus with EEVEE, you can render and animate in realtime. Pretty good stuff.