27-06-2025, 04:47 PM
It really depends on what people are using their computers for. For browsing the web and email, linux will be just fine, it really comes down to any other individual apps such as photoshop, outlook etc where you run into issues.
The thing is there are a ton of free alternatives to such software, but either requires extra training, along with people locked into a particular ecosystem or product and many dont like adapting to change.
That being said, linux has come a long way in the last 20 years, I remember having a friend at the time saying linux was the next best thing, and yet literally nothing ever worked properly out of the box, poor driver support and a community that expected you to be a total geek to use it and at the same time complain that you are the problem for not learning a whole bunch of stuff in the command line.
I still use windows, but im at the point of changing over with the way windows11 is going with microsoft accounts, etc.
I recently had a client who had his computer reset and wipe all the apps after asking him to sign into microsoft, I initially thought it was a case of PEBKAC, but speaking to others, they tell me they have heard of similar stories where the computer prompts the user to sign into microsoft after a windows update and then proceed to perform some kind of system reset, which is what I had assumed had happened here, but he was adamant that all he did was sign into a microsoft account when prompted and then it restarted spinning around with the dont turn off your PC message.
The thing is there are a ton of free alternatives to such software, but either requires extra training, along with people locked into a particular ecosystem or product and many dont like adapting to change.
That being said, linux has come a long way in the last 20 years, I remember having a friend at the time saying linux was the next best thing, and yet literally nothing ever worked properly out of the box, poor driver support and a community that expected you to be a total geek to use it and at the same time complain that you are the problem for not learning a whole bunch of stuff in the command line.
I still use windows, but im at the point of changing over with the way windows11 is going with microsoft accounts, etc.
I recently had a client who had his computer reset and wipe all the apps after asking him to sign into microsoft, I initially thought it was a case of PEBKAC, but speaking to others, they tell me they have heard of similar stories where the computer prompts the user to sign into microsoft after a windows update and then proceed to perform some kind of system reset, which is what I had assumed had happened here, but he was adamant that all he did was sign into a microsoft account when prompted and then it restarted spinning around with the dont turn off your PC message.