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Originally Posted by Sirtel
Undoubtedly. As I have no IT or technical background, however, and command line stuff is Chinese to me, I have to use Windows. I could install a Linux version with a nice GUI, of course, but the first time I ran into a problem would probably be the last time I used it. When I have a problem on my Windows computer, I google for a solution and usually find it in a language a layperson can understand; most Linux advice I've come across sounds like it's written by aliens for aliens.
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Desktop Linux has gotten a lot easier during the last few years, especially if you use a "flavor" that closely resembles the Windows Desktop (like Linux Mint). I've always had pretty good luck finding the solution to issues in Linux on the Internet. Now I'm almost useless when trying to support my wife's Windows computers — everything seems convoluted. But I understand that it depends on what you're used to using.
When my wife's computer blue screened to death after doing a mandatory upgrade, I must have tried 20 different ways (that I found on the Internet) to get it to boot again. I finally gave up, used a Live Linux USB to to retrieve her data, then rebuilt the Windows computer from scratch. (I had to do this twice, both times I tried multiple "fixes.") But she hasn't had any problems in the last five or six years, so I think Windows 10 (now 11) is more stable now than it was back then. (For which I'm grateful.)
She uses newer computers, like you. I just upgraded her desktop RAM to 40 GBs and her SSD to 1 TB.