My problem with Windows
Being a windows user since WindowsXP and using every version of Microsoft's operating system up to the latest build of windows10 I stumbled upon all the usual problems everyone has.
Blue screens of death and updates keep crashing and many other problems, But the biggest problem I have faced in windows is after a fresh install and installing all my necessary programs, and after a while, my system gets sluggish, starts to lag on me. And believe me, I have a pretty decent system still, It gets slow after a month or so.
I did every single optimization I could but the result would be the same, And then I stumbled upon Linux.
Enter: Linux
I started looking for alternatives but did not know what were the options available to me but a simple google search I was already downloading the iso file of Ubuntu20.04, but switching to a new operating system was a heck of a task itself but currently, I am dual booting my machine with KDE neon and windows10 slowly switching towards Linux full time.
Best Linux Distro for Beignner:
These are the best distributions of Linux that every new user should try.
Linux Mint
KDE neon/Kubuntu
Zorin OS
Latest comments (45)
17 years with Linux here. Apart from missing Photoshop or some decent audio/video recording/mixing tools (think of Lightroom or Camtasia or Adobe Audition), I haven't had the need to move back to Windows in over a decade.
Still a matter of preferences - the intrusive updates upon shutting down or when booting are what drives me crazy as it interferes with my own planning (like heading out for a meeting or before stating a presentation).
I haven't found a convincing point in your article, it's like you are just making an announcement that you are switching to Linux, if you ask me Linux is fine, I still use Windows and aside from msi driver issues after à fresh update, there's nothing else that troubles me.
You can call it a sort of announcement now that you mentioned it
Good.
There is a video on YouTube "the Internet is for porn". And what for was PC made? Games, ofc. Sure, Linux is great, I use it all the time. But if I'm for some real gaming, I must have a Windows. Then what about office? Sure, if you have small firm, but if you are in large system that has Office 365 or uses ms exchange server for mail, there is no solution. So, everything is true. It Is simple, it is stable, even safer and faster. But you Can have Linux and use it with Windows on dual boot or emulator or you can use just Windows. No dual anything.
Every time I get a new computer, and sometimes just in between, I try to switch to Linux, are confronted by something that doesn't make it unusable but just something I'm not willing to tolerate, and switch back.
Often it's tearing on the desktop. Gnome doesn't have it and seems rock solid, but I also hate the way it functions
KDE crashes whenever I open a game then the tearing starts.
Some other desktops really don't like it when your multiple monitors aren't all the same.
Multiple of my Ubuntu installs have self destructed in upgrade, etc.
I really want to like and use Linux. But Linux hates me.
Switching to Linux is a phase that everyone should try. Also if after a while you come back to Windows. Is experience and is useful. Anyway, I think each OS had his features and use them depends on what you need to do. In my office (I'm an accountant) there is only Windows because of the management software works only in Windows. But at home, I have only Linux.
I think that at school is not a good idea to teach only a commercial product like Windows. Students should have an idea that there is a lot of choices out there.
Windows is the most user-friendly OS because, in my opinion, is the first OS you use. At school, at work (non dev-related) you find Windows.
After that, I agree 100% with you saying that the most user-friendly Linux distro is Linux Mint. I've installed that distro just two weeks ago after a long time passed trying other interesting distros. Linux Mint 20.1 Ulyssa is beautiful!
Great 👌 currently I'm using Linux mint
Arco Linux is good
Someone probably has already suggested elementary OS
I just said endeavour because I'm hearing a lot about it, never tried arch.
But to my knowledge vanilla arch is better because you learn a lot just by installing it successfully
I recommend using the python-is-python3 deb package and just say no to any python2 dependencies ... If the Ubuntu repo version of something has python2 then you can find the python3 version on the project's upstream (if it doesn't have one then it's a dead project at this point anyway)