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Forbes.com has published a piece by contributor Jason Evangelho entitled "5 Reasons You Should Switch From Windows To Linux Right Now".
When I published the highlights of my journey switching from Windows to Linux on my everyday laptop... it became one of my most viewed pieces this year. From where I'm sitting, that tells me a ton of people are interested -- are at least actively curious -- about ditching Windows and making the jump to Linux.
With that in mind, I wanted to present five reasons that may lead you to consider switching. Know that these are subjective, and they're targeted at the average Windows user and not folks who rely on Windows-exclusive applications for a paycheck.
One thing to know right up front: the modern Linux desktop OS is no longer the obtuse, bewildering and command line driven thing it used to be. Not remotely.
It's nice to see a free operating system getting some love in the mainstream press. Forbes running this article is more the story here than desktop Linux having advantages over Windows.
Be sure to read TFA to find out what the five reasons are. (Or see spoiler, below.)
1: Linux Gets Out Of Your Way
2: You're Not A Slave To The Terminal
3: Installing Software Is Even Easier
4: Updates aren't a headache. They're glorious
5: The Linux Community
(Score: 5, Informative) by Alfred on Tuesday July 24 2018, @08:53PM (1 child)
I tolerate Linux.
Let me overgeneralize for a minute.
Linux has never truly been about the noob user and it never will be. It is about the developer who is past the learning curve. If you are a CompSci major, great. Do you have lots of time to burn, great. IF not you are SOL.
Whoever works on Linux GUIs need to read the Zen of Palm and some early Apple design documents. Stuff that explains how it is important to not confuse your user. Apple had an early premise that everything should be available through the menubar. And that everything that could be available would be there though sometimes greyed out. Why? To build a reliable it always works technique of finding what you want. This is why a home button is such a good idea, click and you are back to what you know. Linux is so fragmented that it seems that any GUI trick you learn is only good for a few revisions of the distro you are using. If there was a strong central force to unify some kind of user experience then you might have something that would helps noobs and adoption. But everytime something could do this is ends up in fights and fizzles. You can't really have an authoritarian that can boss the troops around if they aren't paying the troops. Linus cant do it. Stallman can't do it.
In my college C class, we were using linux. I switched to Xcode in the middle of the final project while under deadline because I couldn't get down to their lab or something. It was all around better and I could do what I wanted without reading instructions. Just look, click and boom. When Linux gets to that point of user/noob friendliness, and is still free, then it will take off.
But it won't, as near as i can tell the only reason Linux took off was because it was nice hobby and then dot com boom and people didn't want a separate server license and hardware for every domain. It was so much cheaper it was viable.
For me, I like the cash price of linux but not the time price. Linux is lacking so hacinktosh all the way*. Powerful, useful, not an eyesore, and above all, not windows. *I do have one Linux box with Mint tho.
(Score: 2) by Alfred on Tuesday July 24 2018, @09:39PM
That and a incredible salesman and an unfaltering slave driver jerk.