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I installed Fedora on laptops of few mine friends during last years. All of them are using it till today. One of them was really sceptical, but after while sai

I installed Fedora on laptops of few mine friends during last years. All of them are using it till today. One of them was really sceptical, but after while said "I though linux is more for nerds and more different than Win." Well, she is just casual user of browser, few chat apps, Kodi and occasionally libre office, but still positive with change. However while I use linux on server and laptop, I cannot use it on workstation beacuse of Adobe that I need for professional work.

shepherdjerred 2y ago
Do you provide support when they ran into issues? IMO there are a lot of variables here that boil down to Windows (and macOS) having the benefit of familiarity, widespread use, and more consistency. Your experience with Linux will heavily depend on your experience with computers, distro, hardware (e.g. due to obscure driver issues), and workload. Your experience with macOS/Windows will be fairly consistent. There are still driver issues with Windows, but they're less common than Linux.
- t0bia_s 2y ago
  - Do you provide support when they ran into issues? Sure, few of them are from family. They never had issue with OS, mostly it was application related. - Your experience with macOS/Windows will be fairly consistent. I do not agree. Every system update scares me quite a bit. - There are still driver issues with Windows, but they're less common than Linux. On Fedora, I never had to install drivers manually. All drivers was installed together with first upgrade after fresh install. Even on very old ThinkPad x201 from 2011. On Windows it's mix of searching on multiple HW manufacturer sites, manually installing them and trying if they are compatible.