Personally, I’m not brand loyal to any particular OS. There are good things about a lot of different operating systems, and I even have good things to say about ChromeOS. It just depends on what a user needs from an operating system.
Most Windows-only users I am acquainted with seem to want a device that mostly “just works” out of the box, whereas Linux requires a nonzero amount of tinkering for most distributions. I’ve never encountered a machine for sale with Linux pre-installed outside of niche small businesses selling pre-built PCs.
Windows users seem to want to just buy, have, and use a computer, whereas Linux users seem to enjoy problem solving and tinkering for fun. These two groups of people seem as if they’re very fundamentally different in what they want from a machine, so a user who solely uses Windows moving over to Linux never made much sense to me.
Why did you switch, and what was your process like? What made you choose Linux for your primary computing device, rather than macOS for example?
I was not “techy” Jumped about 15 years ago. My (then) laptop was old and that Windows thing was very slow and needed many restarts. My much smarter work colleague showed me his Ubuntu. I installed as dual boot and in less than 12-months had stopped using Windows and installed Ubuntu as the sole OS. Since then, have tried many others, including Puppy. Now on Debian. Still not techy,or in any way competent with the terminal, but linux just works, even for me.