So having used windows since I rebuilt the physical hardware of a computer of a 486, (for people under 40, this makes me super old), I'm just saying. Migrating from Linus to windows in the post ChatGPT/Claude era is SUPER EASY AND REWARDING.

Background: having using windows 3.11 (it was amazing but a bit slow on my 20MB HDD) on my 286.

Rebuilding a gifted 'broken' 486 and getting.

Here goes guys

MSCDEX
SYSTEM.CONF
SOUND BLASTER. (I've forgotten!)

Working I was basically fab at windows.

AND YOU PROBABLY FEEL THE SAME.

You probably think you've invested years if not decades into windows and learning new is SUPER SCARY.

well. Given Windows 11 made me Google how the hell to change pretty .much every setting to get things the way I liked it.

I THOUGHT F@@K it. I might as well learn something and hopefully it will stay the same. The direction windows is on is to make a every setting hidden behind hard work hard to remember command lines.

The most user friendly LINUX is pop os after having a very quick look.

I have to say

I WAS AMAZED.

first of all, there was no way my Xerox printer is ... Oh, omg printer just works. ZERO driver downloads. It just worked!

Ok but.. oh, Google Chrome and Firefox both just install via the 'shop'...

Why on earth is the shop called shop? Everything is free. It should be called

MIMD BENDING UTOPIA

I've used inkskape to edit svg files for years but hated it. Search the shop, find 5 other apps. The first one. Wow. Amazing.

Ok. But what about

One drive
Dropbox
Office

Omg. Apart from complex slide shows, they all just FU@#ING work.

It's all a lie guys. The idea that Linux is hard

Linux will break everything.

Even booting with windows and Linux and resizing my partition of the NVMe was simple. Look on YouTube. Done.

Every other thing chat gpt knows.

Ok. Things that are AMAZING on Linux.

As a developer Ive seen 'grep' commands and ran scared.

Used them once. WOW THIS IS AMAZING.

docker. Done.
Office easy libre office. But for work. Just use the browser version. Done.

Teams for work. Browser version.

I've had to use windows 1 time in 8 weeks

To run/ test the windows only software we make. Yeah, I'll be getting that to work in docker soon 🤣

FINAL COMMENT
please just give it a try. Installing pop on a 1/4 space of my NVME drive had been the most exciting thing in computers I've done in years.