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It's just that most of the complaints about switching to Linux, i.e. it's hard to do X, are wrong. My dad won't try it because he can't run MSword. There's noth

It's just that most of the complaints about switching to Linux, i.e. it's hard to do X, are wrong. My dad won't try it because he can't run MSword. There's nothing you need to do in Word that can't be done as easily with Linux workflows. There are exceptions, but most of the time it's true. It does mean learning new workflows, but that's usually as hard as it feels. I'm not a graphics person so I can't say if gimp can replace Photoshop, but a lot of little tasks I used to open Photoshop for on Mac are easily handled by GIMP or even imagemagick. The majority of users would be fine learning these tools.

AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y ago
It's where you take some anecdotes and then apply "most" and "the majority" to them that I really disagree with. There are a lot of serious computer users and professionals who would love to be using a FOSS OS free from all the bullshit of Microsoft and Apple, but are unable unable to because even if it is theoretically possible to do what they do on Linux, the headaches of doing so are just not worth it and it doesn't look like the Linux Desktop community is very interested in changing that because it is "good enough" as far as they are concerned.