Linux transition difficulties are real though. If someone isn’t mentally prepared to face the learning curve, then you better be ready to be the one on-call all the time for their tech problems. My wife shall remain on Windows as her tolerance of tech hiccups is almost zero.
This was the biggest hurdle to me making the switch - I didn’t have a support network, and while I’m tech savvy enough to research my own solutions, it was scary to potentially be out a computer while doing so. In reality, it was a non-issue. Answers are easy to find and even CLI solutions usually just amounted to copying a command from a forum post and pasting it into the terminal. Obviously not the best security to be running terminal commands you don’t understand but it was a good way to learn (for me).
Point being, if it’s someone who isn’t completely helpless, teaching them “Just type ‘debian’ + ‘problem’ into Google” will probably solve 90% of issues a non-power-user is going to have.
Yep, and this is the majority of computer users unfortunately. However, I got my mom on OpenSUSE from winblows. Since she almost only uses browser for everything. This transition was pretty easy. I am only have to visit once in a while to make sure the machine is up to date, otherwise she is happy.
Oh no, this thingus broke, how was it that I did this specific things on my other OS? Oh I need to go to terminal to fix this, and get this thing from git…
Firefox instead of edge go brrr. I don’t even know what an OS is.
Linux transition difficulties are real though. If someone isn’t mentally prepared to face the learning curve, then you better be ready to be the one on-call all the time for their tech problems. My wife shall remain on Windows as her tolerance of tech hiccups is almost zero.
This was the biggest hurdle to me making the switch - I didn’t have a support network, and while I’m tech savvy enough to research my own solutions, it was scary to potentially be out a computer while doing so. In reality, it was a non-issue. Answers are easy to find and even CLI solutions usually just amounted to copying a command from a forum post and pasting it into the terminal. Obviously not the best security to be running terminal commands you don’t understand but it was a good way to learn (for me).
Point being, if it’s someone who isn’t completely helpless, teaching them “Just type ‘debian’ + ‘problem’ into Google” will probably solve 90% of issues a non-power-user is going to have.
Yep, and this is the majority of computer users unfortunately. However, I got my mom on OpenSUSE from winblows. Since she almost only uses browser for everything. This transition was pretty easy. I am only have to visit once in a while to make sure the machine is up to date, otherwise she is happy.
There are two types of linux transition:
The hardware someone has also needs to support it. Mine doesn’t. Can’t afford anything else.