Most of their money comes from business. On the one hand, there’s the argument that business owners will notice that most of the tools they use these days are actually web apps and that you don’t need anything more than a browser to use them and therefore will have no problem moving away from Windows. On the other hand…inertia is real and people tend to equate value and cost. My brother is a senior IT person and he’s been a linux specialist for almost all of his career. Until the day that a company he worked at got new leadership and they insisted on moving everything to windows and retraining all the IT staff because “nothing that’s free could possibly be good or secure”.

For some people, the fact that Windows costs money will absolutely be seen as a plus.

Thanks.

Generally speaking I tend to just leave the C: drive for utilities and use external drives for data, as much as possible. I understand that Linux handles files and stuff somewhat differently, but that would still generally be my plan.

Yeah, that’s kind of what I’d gathered. I’ve got a few dead computers around and I’m going to take a drive out of one of those and use that for the Linux while keeping Windows on the drive it’s already on.

Every Windows machine I’ve ever had just gets slower and slower over time. It takes several years, but after 2-3 years it’s taking ages to do basic tasks. I’m just kind of tired of it at this point.

No harm in trying, right?

Thanks.

Thank you.

Cachy is what I’mgoing to try first. I’m semi-resolved to dual-booting for the video/photo stuff.

I’ve also got a vague plan at some point in the future to buy a desktop mac and one of those boxes where you can just switch monitors/input device routing at the press of a button. Maybe put the video/photo stuff on that. Although, that said, I’ve got a colleage who is a graphic designer on the side and the only reason he’s got a Windows machine is that even the biggest mac he owns can’t handle the graphics. He’s an Apple evangelist yet even he says that Apple does not do graphics well.

The stuff I do is nothing like the stuff he does and I don’t need anything as powerful as him, but I am still aware that “get a mac to do video stuff” isn’t necessarily the best plan. But I’m likely getting one anyway for other reasons, so it can’t hurt to try.

Thanks. The consensus seems to be Cachy, so that’s what I’m trying first.

Yeah, I’m prepared. I hope.

Thanks. I think I’m going to start with trying Cachy.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you. Cachy OS seems to be the majority suggestion, and that’s Arch.

Thank you.

Thank you. The consensus seems to be Cachy OS, so I’m going to give that a go.

Thank you

Thank you

I’ve never noticed this. Mostly because I basically never close Task Manager. Because programs hanging is common enough that it’s actually useful to have Task Manager open on a separate screen.

On an unrelated note, I must set myself a reminder for tomorrow to give installing Linux another go…