Kudos to the author for diving in - I made my transition 13 years ago in 2014 and started with Slackware. While most installations work out of the box on whate

Kudos to the author for diving in - I made my transition 13 years ago in 2014 and started with Slackware. While most installations work out of the box on whatever hardware, you might still have trouble with sound, graphics or wifi drivers. While finding help for this online is definitely doable it's not for everyone. As an example, I gave my parents my old laptop with Ubuntu installed (they basically use Skype and browse the internet). However, unfortunately they had some trouble with a Skype update and within a few weeks they paid someone to install windows on it (I was not around to troubleshoot their problem at the time). The author does make a good point about hiring someone once to set it up for you though :)