Switching to Linux
When switching from one software product to a similar or another, but with similar functionality, the user always faces a bunch of questions and problems. Imagine that you drove one car and decided to change to another, like the same four wheels, engine, steering wheel, but no – the car is different, and it drives differently and in service it is different and your choice is to stay on this or revert to old or similar new.
So it is in the case of moving from one operating environment to another. The most important, perhaps, the question that arises during the transition – “is it necessary?
And if necessary, then why?” So what motivates people to install Linux?
The desire to try something new. This is a desire to learn and see something new inherent in the vast majority of people, but everyone implements it differently – someone travels the world, someone buys collectibles, and someone is studying new systems and programs for him.
The desire to be different from everyone else. We all remember the famous figure that Linux on workstations has a distribution of about 1%. And it is exactly getting into this 1% that gives the feeling of being separated from the general mass, since 1% is a relatively small number and gives reason to consider oneself not like other people.
Desire to feel cool. A lot of people believe that Linux is an operating system for hackers and experienced professionals, and a subconscious desire to feel like that also influences the decision to install this OS.
Getting rid of most of the problems, because almost everyone knows that Windows is an extremely unstable system.
Everyone also knows what the “blue screen of death” is. In Linux, it is also present, but only in the form of a screen saver. Unwillingness to pay for programs and at the same time a desire to live honestly. Rarely, but it also happens.
The desire is laudable, and you need to facilitate its implementation. A fairly old computer where Windows will run very slowly. In Linux, you can choose a graphical desktop environment from several options, among which there are systems that are very undemanding to resources.