Personally, I’m not brand loyal to any particular OS. There are good things about a lot of different operating systems, and I even have good things to say about ChromeOS. It just depends on what a user needs from an operating system.
Most Windows-only users I am acquainted with seem to want a device that mostly “just works” out of the box, whereas Linux requires a nonzero amount of tinkering for most distributions. I’ve never encountered a machine for sale with Linux pre-installed outside of niche small businesses selling pre-built PCs.
Windows users seem to want to just buy, have, and use a computer, whereas Linux users seem to enjoy problem solving and tinkering for fun. These two groups of people seem as if they’re very fundamentally different in what they want from a machine, so a user who solely uses Windows moving over to Linux never made much sense to me.
Why did you switch, and what was your process like? What made you choose Linux for your primary computing device, rather than macOS for example?
I was Windows only and a gamer growing up. Work and music production had me on Mac learning UNIX, bash anyway.
After this year’s Windows 11 updates and the amount of Linux gaming support available thanks to SteamOS and Proton, I now boot to a Linux distro more often than not. If it isn’t a specific Windows only game, I can do everything I want on Linux and not feel like I am inside of a corporate office building in my mind. My personal Mac has become my Logic machine.
Ubuntu works pretty well out of the box. Manjaro as well if you want to pretend to use Arch :)