buncha clowns ITT laughing at a dude trying to swim for the first time. OMG how does he not know how to X and Y lolz why don't you flatpak bust a cap in they ass...

this was an exceptionally excellent writeup especially with the "day 7: can't do thing. day 10: here's how to do thing" from the perspective of someone who used windows for ever and invariably looks at the thing from that point of view. dude pulled of transitioning a laptop with a buncha esoteric peripherals and an nvidia desktop and made almost everything work!

also, major ups for using the single most excellent solution for beginners, Ubuntu, and not getting lost in "no true scotsman" garudas and arches and atomic thisandthats.

most of his comments I completely understand, but saying process manager 'looks a bit low-rent' tells me absolutely nothing other than that you personally don't like the look.

also, complaining about not having a consistent way to install apps is a bit rich wheh coming from a desktop where the best way is still to just find the app website, download the installer and click through an inconsistent installer that might be trying to add ad- or spyware alojg with yue app you wany

I wonder if anyone dumped windows for "Being Sluggish" being one of the reasons

Kubuntu Desktop looks good

I love to hear it.

I don't really get this type of "media" bullshit articles. Yes, Windows is becoming progressively worse with more annoyances but you also have more simple to use tools than ever to disable those annoyances in bulk.

For the average user is far simpler to just run W10 Privacy, CTT or some other tool to disable all the annoying Windows features than it is to move to Linux and face all the major pain points people usually have around software compatibility and missing xyz very specific that isn't really the same thing under Linux.

There you go, fixed the Windows problem for you in a few clicks, no need to download an entire new OS and complain afterwards.

Boom. Chrome installed. However, why can't it be in the App Center where it would be available with only one click?

Hey check it out, this guy doesn't understand that closed source apps aren't distributed this way! Chromium and Firefox are available, ya dingus!

Control my phone from the desktop -- this appears to be doable in KDE desktop but not easily in Gnome desktop environment

scrcpy, man this guy needs someone walking him through better solutions. He's even trying to use Notepad++ instead of things like Kate.

Hardware support is the Achilles Heel of Linux

Only if you have fancy shit, it seems like. I am a low-end end nerd and I rarely have hardware issues.

Anyway, yeah, people need help from the community first time around or they're gonna be figuring out what works by piecemeal instead of having quality suggestions.