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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: 3, Insightful) by bobthecimmerian on Tuesday July 24 2018, @08:58PM
Using a webapp to accomplish something isn't a bad thing. It's not the "lowest common denominator". I put my shared family documents in Etherpad - Word for Windows and LibreOffice Writer for Windows and Linux work better, but with Etherpad I can edit the same document from five different computers. Likewise for the Ethercalc spreadsheet.
And using webapps also offers a migration path. That's how Google made ChromeOS propular, they invested billions in the Chrome browser and web standards and open source web software so that people could switch from any operating system with a decent browser to Chrome OS. But it's also the only thing that could possibly save the world from being owned by Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, and ChromeOS - as Progressive Web Apps improve and WebAssembly tools improve, the same thing that makes it convenient to jump to Chrome OS or Windows + Edge browser will make it convenient to jump to Ubuntu or FreeBSD or ReactOS or ReduxOS or Jolla or WebOS or whatever.