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Moving goalposts is a concept that applies to debates. Choosing an operating system shouldn't be a debate. It's a personal choice, or sometimes a professional choice. Convincing people who don't want to be convinced shouldn't be anyone's goal.
I didn't mean my post to be read as trying to convince someone to use Linux, but as someone trying to convince themselves to use Linux. It's fairly common that people want to switch but have convinced themselves that unless they have their exact same workflow from Windows they won't be able to.
It's scary. Straight up. You don't know if changing it will put you into a situation where there is no one there to help. All your information is on these machines and Windows for all it's faults is a bought product with customer service.
Making a change without a safety net or someone to walk you through it is ballsy. Research is important and no offense, hard to find for Linux. Sure there are many "how to" videos and scenarios. But what if I play a game and I cannot absolutely live without it. And all of its plugins?
Well, no duh.
M$ has been the dominant OS for the majority of a lot of peoples lives, accordingly a massive, massive ecosystem has grown up around it.
My IT career has taken me some weird and wonderful places, and there is a lot of extremely specialised software that will only run on windows, and wine unfortunately still has a bit of a stigma with its interoperability. When you're running shit a business literally relies on to exist, you don't play games with it.
Fortunately m$ are shooting themselves in the face, which is driving a lot of vendors to rethink their software., but it's still a slog.