Biggest issues in Linux:
- GPU support is poor at best, multiple monitor support is scary at best.
- Can you game on Linux, this would be insane to even try and very few titles out there via steam that run a bit stable
- Linux community is very fragmented and aggressive towards each other. Never seen such hostile environment going through Linux forum.
- Can it run Office, Adobe, AutoCAD or any other decent Video or Music production software - no it can't !
The open source alternatives are poor at best. Tried them and not impressed. Even the likes of Thunderbird, Libre etc.... It gets somehow the job done but not very nice to use.
- Printing on Linux don't get me even started. I recon W11 could print out of the box to a dot matrix printer form the 70's with no issues at all.
Wanna stream and game at the same time you are screwed on Linux in any possible way lagging audio and video and system crashes are just the prelude.....
Linux is lightyears away from being proper supported and user friendly for the average Joe.
Why even going through the pain of Linux for end users when W11 is installed in 10 minutes another 10min for drivers and we are good to go to run anything favourite game or productivity software in minutes highly optimized out of the box and very stable.
I gave some distros a try lately with Steam game install and it was a pile of **** at best = user experience was as low at it can get for even simple daily task on Windows.
Mostly completely wrong.
Windows is better for gaming.
There are problems with Nvidia GPU drivers, fine with AMD.
I plugged a second monitor in to the machine I am typing this on a few days ago and it just worked. I went into settings and configured how I wanted it arranged in a GUI. and that was it. I have had the same experience before.
The Linux community is not hostile. I have found people extremely helpful.
No Linux cannot run WIndows only software other than in a VM. ON the other hand WIndows needs to run Linux software badly enough that Microsoft developed an entire specialised VM based system just to run Linux software on Windows.
On the other hand there are people who use other software that does the same thing, on a professional basis. Given, for example, that people sell £1k + CAD software for Linux I think its safe to assume anyone paying that is professional. As for video production there have been TV series made with software that does run on Linux (Blender) so, again, professional use and a cost taken out of $100m budgets (e.g. Man in the High Castle, $200m for the first two seasons).
I prefer Thunderbird to Outlook.
its been more than a decade since I had a problem with printers on Linux.
My wife and kids have been using Linux for years. All their lives in the case of the kids. My Dad used Linux until my sister got him a new laptop. They find Windows hard to use - its a matter of what you are used to. A lot of people use Chromebooks which are just Linux (and, unlike Android, not just the Linux Kernel, its conventional Linux) - and you can install ChromeOS on PCs now, although its more limited and the experience does not seem any better than a user friendly Linux.
Installing any OS is potentially painful. I have not had problems with any recent Linux installs, and lots of people have problems installing WIndows. The problem is that people compare pre-installed Windows with installing Linux for themselves. If you want a comparable experience plenty of people sell machines with Linux pre-installed.
Once installed Linux is less problematic and therefore easier on the average user. WIndows is best for office use where you have an IT department to maintain and fix it.
Also, its silly to talk about "Linux" generically. As you know there are numerous distros that make different trade offs. Which distro and which desktop environment make huge difference. There are things that exist for geeks, and there are things that exist for average users. I use Manjaro, which I would not recommend for most people.
