Plus, the linux transition process is a lot easier these days. Most the open source programs have a windows version for you to learn on. There’s the linux for windows subsystem to learn the terminal basics. Linux Mint broadly mimics Windows’ interface. Installing linux isn’t the massive challenge to set up that it was ten years ago. I don’t even have windows partition these days.
Honestly, if someone is a Windows user it’s probably easier to slowly transition each of your programs to the open source versions then make the leap to linux than it is to learn Mac’s set up.
Shit even years ago that “open source” part was true. I switched to all open source programs (when possible) even though I was still on windows the second I found out how much better VLC is than everything. That was like '07 lmao. And it indeed was a big reason I stopped being scared of switching to linux, someone told me “dude almost everything you use already runs on linux, you won’t even need to find alts.”
That’s a good point about WSL though too because afaik that wasn’t around when I switched and I was indeed still scared of the CLI (until I switched and watched a few “linux CLI basics” and “bash basics” youtube videos.) I’ll have to remember to recommend that for those in my old shoes, thanks!
Plus, the linux transition process is a lot easier these days. Most the open source programs have a windows version for you to learn on. There’s the linux for windows subsystem to learn the terminal basics. Linux Mint broadly mimics Windows’ interface. Installing linux isn’t the massive challenge to set up that it was ten years ago. I don’t even have windows partition these days.
Honestly, if someone is a Windows user it’s probably easier to slowly transition each of your programs to the open source versions then make the leap to linux than it is to learn Mac’s set up.
Shit even years ago that “open source” part was true. I switched to all open source programs (when possible) even though I was still on windows the second I found out how much better VLC is than everything. That was like '07 lmao. And it indeed was a big reason I stopped being scared of switching to linux, someone told me “dude almost everything you use already runs on linux, you won’t even need to find alts.”
That’s a good point about WSL though too because afaik that wasn’t around when I switched and I was indeed still scared of the CLI (until I switched and watched a few “linux CLI basics” and “bash basics” youtube videos.) I’ll have to remember to recommend that for those in my old shoes, thanks!