Personally, I’m not brand loyal to any particular OS. There are good things about a lot of different operating systems, and I even have good things to say about ChromeOS. It just depends on what a user needs from an operating system.
Most Windows-only users I am acquainted with seem to want a device that mostly “just works” out of the box, whereas Linux requires a nonzero amount of tinkering for most distributions. I’ve never encountered a machine for sale with Linux pre-installed outside of niche small businesses selling pre-built PCs.
Windows users seem to want to just buy, have, and use a computer, whereas Linux users seem to enjoy problem solving and tinkering for fun. These two groups of people seem as if they’re very fundamentally different in what they want from a machine, so a user who solely uses Windows moving over to Linux never made much sense to me.
Why did you switch, and what was your process like? What made you choose Linux for your primary computing device, rather than macOS for example?
I first got on it because Windows Vista ran like an absolute pig after a few years and I got tired of it - downloaded Ubuntu and I was off to the races with it. After that laptop I built my first PC which I’m proud to say has never so much as had a windows USB stick inserted into it.
Tbh I find it requires much less tinkering now - I ended up putting Fedora Atomic Cosmic on a Chromebook this weekend (first time w/ jailbreaking a Chromebook, and w/Fedora) and it took all of an hour to get it done - the only command-line stuff I needed to do was because Fedora Atomic is immutable so adding non-flatpak apps is a slightly more involved process. Beyond that OS setup/software installation was entirely via GUI and straightforward.