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Of course, for every story/video/etc. of someone smoothly transitioning, there's a thousand more that have basic non-starters because of certain applications/hardware, too many bugs or simply gave up in frustration.
Do you have any idea how hard it is to go from Linux to Windows?
Nightmare. The bloody thing keeps on wanting to peek up your skirt (even if you don't wear one)
I do. It's a MASSIVE Pain in the ass, especially if you're looking for minimalism, performance and a tiling window manager, as Windows can't provide either of these.
And there's also the spyware and other stuff. I just remember hating one of my lecturers in college for using Visual Studio in the first year (Y1), and using Excel in Y2, for the modules she taught, meaning I had to use Windows for them. Luckily, for the first assignment in Y1, and the second assignment in Y2, I didn't actually need Windows, and for the second assignment of Y1, I just did it in class on the college's Windows machines. But Y2, first assignment I did a Windows dualboot cuz I unfortunately didn't have time to do it in class.
Anyways, point is that I associate Windows with bad memories. While I associate Linux with good ones.
"Anyways, point is that I associate Windows with bad memories. While I associate Linux with good ones."
Me too. I use Arch/Kubuntu ... actually!