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How much of a pain really is it to switch to linux for the first time? I don't understand everything about windows, but its user friendly for that. Is it still the same on Linux?
1 year ago · 👍 anthrax, lykso
My wife uses Pop!_OS. She's not particularly technical and it works fine for her. She used Apple before. · 1 year ago
Imo no pain at all, i gave a laptop with linux to someone who has not a slingle clue about linux and never asked for support. windows is not userfriedly, it is beginnerfriendly. it does not even have a native packagemanagement... · 1 year ago
The thing with Linux is that if something goes wrong in your system, or you have trouble installing a program, you're probably gonna have to fix it yourself instead of being able to run a troubleshooter. This can range from easy fixes to nightmarish hour-long dives into Stack Overflow for help. Once you get the hang of Linux's quirks though, you'll probably end up liking it more than Windows. Try and get an up-to-date distro with a lot of documentation and it'll save you a lot of headaches. I like Manjaro personally, but everyone tends to recommend Linux Mint. · 1 year ago
There'll be that period of unfamiliarity that comes when you swap any tool for another, but once you get past that a lot of Linux desktops manage to be friendlier than Windows IMO.
The distro isn't super important. The desktop environment is responsible for most user facing differences between distros so focus research on those. Gnome and KDE are two that are both really popular and well supported. Gnome is a little bit simpler while KDE is more customizable and will probably feel more familiar coming from Windows. · 1 year ago
Linux has gotten much easier to switch to... Mint, Elementary, or Zorin are probably going to be the easiest to work with coming from Windows · 1 year ago