I migrated to Linux Mint Cinnamon about 8 months ago. I will never go back. Like some of course, I run Windows 10 in an Oracle Virtual Box (that is, I run it INSIDE Linux), almost exclusively for MS Hearts, which I admit some addiction to. (Stats over 7,000 games played: 74%+ winning percentage -- so yes, I'm fairly good at it.) :)
Obviously, I have the PC resources to easily do this. But it doesn't take that much.
There is no earthly reason that an average person cannot run Linux Mint Cinnamon. It's easily the most "Windows-like" distro out there. Claims that Linux "is made of spaghetti code" (whatever TF that is), are silly. Linux is made of code vetted by much of planet Earth, not by some corporation (that in the end wants to BIND you to its OS). Are there little, tiny, niggles? Yes. I haven't found any that are not rather easily overcome. And on top of it, the apps are free. You don't have to pay Adobe for Photoshop, or anyone for anything.
You will need to learn a *few* ways of doing things that are a bit different. Can you edit a file in Windows? Of course you can. So you can edit a file in Linux! And there's a huge online community that will, at no cost to you, help you get over humps you might experience.
"sam" ... who posted below me, is out of his mind, and perhaps an MS employee. :)
He's just wrong. Period. He doesn't know. So don't take advice from "sam". :)
Linux is made of spaghetti code which is held together by prayers and hope. It's made as a part-time OS, it's not even an OS to begin with. Waste of time for anyone trying it.
I've been a Windows user all this time, something I'd heartily recommend is Terabyte Unlimited's 'Image for Windows/Image for Linux', as a rock solid backup solution, sometimes there's discount codes around.
Having backed up a clean install plus tweaks, if things get messed up it's really easy to just restore the image then reinstall essential software in no time. All my data files reside under a different drive letter so are unaffected.
One thing that Windows gets mostly right is backward compatibility, maybe with Linux variants there's too much temptation to make drastic changes especially with limited resources for testing. I'm also a long suffering Firefox user which seemed to suffer similarly in the past.
Thanks very much for all the hard work that goes into your Youtube content, it's very much appreciated :-)
I completely agree that if there were to ever actually be a "Year of the Linux Desktop", programs need to run out of the box with minimal configuration and native (or at least well optimized wine) support of the big name programs: excel, Photoshop, AutoCAD, etc. One of the sad things about using Linux though is that it can be a real coin flip whether or not you'll have problems. Part of why I'm such an evangelist is because I haven't had a single issue that I haven't been able to resolve swiftly or figure out that it was my own doing in the first place, aside from Fedora just not working on my laptop-- Arch runs perfectly and I use it on my desktop, too. A friend who I convinced to give it a shot was the exact opposite: problem after problem, crash after crash. I tried to help them and even tried to configure things myself to no avail. Could it have been the parts? The distro? Or just pure misfortune?
If Linux were to ever gain the market share enthusiasts hope for, it's all about having hardware and software that works consistently everytime
I migrated to Linux Mint Cinnamon about 8 months ago. I will never go back. Like some of course, I run Windows 10 in an Oracle Virtual Box (that is, I run it INSIDE Linux), almost exclusively for MS Hearts, which I admit some addiction to. (Stats over 7,000 games played: 74%+ winning percentage -- so yes, I'm fairly good at it.) :)
Obviously, I have the PC resources to easily do this. But it doesn't take that much.
There is no earthly reason that an average person cannot run Linux Mint Cinnamon. It's easily the most "Windows-like" distro out there. Claims that Linux "is made of spaghetti code" (whatever TF that is), are silly. Linux is made of code vetted by much of planet Earth, not by some corporation (that in the end wants to BIND you to its OS). Are there little, tiny, niggles? Yes. I haven't found any that are not rather easily overcome. And on top of it, the apps are free. You don't have to pay Adobe for Photoshop, or anyone for anything.
You will need to learn a *few* ways of doing things that are a bit different. Can you edit a file in Windows? Of course you can. So you can edit a file in Linux! And there's a huge online community that will, at no cost to you, help you get over humps you might experience.
"sam" ... who posted below me, is out of his mind, and perhaps an MS employee. :)
He's just wrong. Period. He doesn't know. So don't take advice from "sam". :)
Linux is made of spaghetti code which is held together by prayers and hope. It's made as a part-time OS, it's not even an OS to begin with. Waste of time for anyone trying it.
I've been a Windows user all this time, something I'd heartily recommend is Terabyte Unlimited's 'Image for Windows/Image for Linux', as a rock solid backup solution, sometimes there's discount codes around.
Having backed up a clean install plus tweaks, if things get messed up it's really easy to just restore the image then reinstall essential software in no time. All my data files reside under a different drive letter so are unaffected.
One thing that Windows gets mostly right is backward compatibility, maybe with Linux variants there's too much temptation to make drastic changes especially with limited resources for testing. I'm also a long suffering Firefox user which seemed to suffer similarly in the past.
Thanks very much for all the hard work that goes into your Youtube content, it's very much appreciated :-)
I completely agree that if there were to ever actually be a "Year of the Linux Desktop", programs need to run out of the box with minimal configuration and native (or at least well optimized wine) support of the big name programs: excel, Photoshop, AutoCAD, etc. One of the sad things about using Linux though is that it can be a real coin flip whether or not you'll have problems. Part of why I'm such an evangelist is because I haven't had a single issue that I haven't been able to resolve swiftly or figure out that it was my own doing in the first place, aside from Fedora just not working on my laptop-- Arch runs perfectly and I use it on my desktop, too. A friend who I convinced to give it a shot was the exact opposite: problem after problem, crash after crash. I tried to help them and even tried to configure things myself to no avail. Could it have been the parts? The distro? Or just pure misfortune?
If Linux were to ever gain the market share enthusiasts hope for, it's all about having hardware and software that works consistently everytime