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My family is swapping to Linux!! Finally!!
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Be careful here... There will be a learning curve, and you may end up being the tech support person if you aren't already.
I kinda already am. I hate working on their windows problems
Yeah, fair. At least you'll get fewer facepalms this way!
If you already are their tech support, you probably could've forcibly switched then a long time ago.
At least, that's how I treat my computer-illiterate boomer parents. For them, it's "use what I tell you to use or you're on your own." To be fair, on their last few computers that was MacOS, but their iMac from 2013(?) got so obsolete it wasn't good enough anymore, so as of a few months ago they're on a mini PC running Linux whether they like it or not.
WARNING they may suffer from less bugs, less annoying updates, better performance, less spyware and functional package management.
Before anyone says anything I am aware there are trade-offs due to switching from what you know.
Are you sure it would be less bugs? I havent been using windows for like 2-3 years, but it cant have gotten that bad, right?
I guess the base version of windows is relatively ok but Microsoft Office and Overdrive/SharePoint are both completely unusable. Which is insane considering they are industry standards.
Although Linux seems to be generally much more stable in my experience. Of course it depends on the distro.