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Originally Posted by haertig
... I find it best not to try to convert anyone from Windows to a different OS, even if they would greatly benefit from the switch. It just doesn't work 99% of the time. They almost always end up saying "this doesn't work exactly like Windows", and then they fail. Trust me, it's best just to say "yep", and let them go back to the only thing they know.
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I used Linux off and on for six or seven years before I finally moved to it completely, somewhere around 2006 or 2007. What you describe is what I kept doing, trying to get Linux to work like Windows. When they announced (the first time) that XP was going to be phased out for Vista, that's when I decided I was finally going to learn Linux
,as Linux, instead of trying to make it Windows 2. It took me about two two or three weeks to understand the file system. I haven't looked back since. Now the file system (especially the Registry) in Windows seems weird. Unfortunately I can't get completely out of the Windows world because my wife uses it. She always tries to avoid updates for as long as she can because so many times her computer has crashed when it updated. (Not nearly as much since she upgraded to new computers about two years ago, but her laptop still "blue screens" once or twice a month. And her Bluetooth mouse likes to drop out about once every month. But this is minor compared to her old laptop. Now there's also the Windows 11 nags.