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What should I expect upon switching from windows?
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I think the biggest culture shock for a lot of people is "fewer surprises, more options." On my machine at least, updates don't run automatically -- I might get a notification that "updates are available" but that's it, I still have to say "okay, now is a good time to update", it won't surprise me with them.
Similarly, if I want to set a hotkey for like "take a screenshot of the current application", I can do that! But the downside is that it might not be set up by default, I have to go to settings -> hotkeys or something similar.
Linux "gets out of your way" and lets you solve problems, but that also means it's not always going to solve them for you. It's getting better at this over time -- if lots of people have the same problem, the solution might get merged "upstream", but a lot of things are still "well, how do YOU want it to work?".