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Honestly, that's my best advice - I'm not being snarky. No matter what happens, when you go to a new OS you're going to have to learn new things; if you don't want to do that, then you're much better off staying where you are and upgrading.
However...GNOME, for example, isn't a totally different way of driving it - many things are the same, but a lot of things are vastly better. Workspaces, the GNOME Shell, the plugins...they all make things easier to deal with, if you spend a little time figuring out how you want it to work rather than being stuck to old paradigms or those handed down to you by Microsoft and/or Apple.
Of course, you may also hate it. Such is life
Bash is the best thing about Linux once you get the hang of it you can do awesome things. If you don't get at least a moderate grasp of it you will always have a hard time. Even on my Mac I usually have about 3 terminals open at any one time.
Meantime, I'm thinking of giving Chrome OS a go - just to try it out.
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She did get one thing wrong, in that OS X's Spotlight actually came after the Linux equivalents (just like Apple's equivalent of workspaces), but that's probably not relevant to you.
Sorry... she was saying something about Gunity or something...
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Kali is my fave
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Criticism of KDE seem harsh. I like KDE but I also like Xfce - eye candy is important, look around you. AYK you can install a different desktop without installing the OS again.
Ubuntu - super everyday intended use distro meant for techies and non-techies alike wont find a driver for the wireless card in my laptop...
Kali - mega-specific not-intended-as-everyday-driver detected it first time and works perfectly
Both distro versions were new enough that the wireless card in my laptop was not too new to be included... but one just wouldn't bother with the card and the other had no qualms at allJeremiah said: Not really... most have idiot-proof installers and to check for updates every item of installed software is a single command.
For the most part geeky people make Linux seem like it's really hard to use, but the same people might talk about specific kernel features in Windows - which you wont care about if you just want to surf the internet/do work/play games
There are things that can only be done in the CLI for Windows, but people tend not to do them much, just the same as Linux for many can be used without using the CLI ... all down to use-cases.
It can be a bitch to get set up how you like but once you are done it tends to be rock solid unlike Windows or osx.
I will endeavour to learn to the best of my ability. Until I get really bored.
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Apple you expect it to work - it doesn't.
Linux (*nix) - get yourself a guru it works.
Simples!
BTW - just a few people who use Linux for real work: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_adopters
Just Linux, not counting BSD distros.
This while stability thing is crap, in fact I've had more issues with my wife's MacBook.
I've also had Linux servers go down in corporate environments so they are not immune to issues.
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The us navy once tried to run a battle ship on Windows. It ended up going into full ship blue screen mode and got towed back to port.
I just bounced back to what in my opinion was a glib statement that Linux is of no use except for nerds who don't do any work on Linux.
Pros and cons of course but no need to put people off trying Linux - a very mature OS with excellent features. Even Microsoft are releasing apps such as SQL server that will run on Linux,