Tips:

• You will, at some point, fuck something up. Resist the urge to type in whatever console command comes from a Stack Overflow problem that’s similar, though not exact, to your issue.
• Keep a log of changes you make so you can identify what change may have made things worse or not done what you wanted.
• Have a data backup off the machine of anything you can’t bare to lose. Keep it for at least a year in case you lose the original data.
• Be patient with yourself and expect to feel like a noob at computers again.
• Don’t try to make your DE like Windows, embrace the changes and discover better or new ways to set up your desktop.
• Again, be patient and take your time. It’s like riding a bike for the first time.
• Ask Linux communities for help if you have a good, positive source of helpful individuals.
• Have fun!

My biggest pain points with Linux have mostly been audio related. Audio is serviceable for general users but whenever it comes to either professional audio work or high end consumer audiophile stuff, Mac and Windows unfortunately blow Linux out of the fucking water at this point in time.

Pros: OS doesn’t spy on you, better privacy, freedom, the OS will not tell you what you have to do. Just do whatever you want to do, change whatever you want to change.

Cons: Maybe gaming support, this is what I see people complaining. I don’t game myself, so can’t say much here. After using Linux for 20+ years, I personally don’t have any cons. The OS works perfectly fine for both professional and personal life.

My main gripe with linux is still game and other software support.

Other than that everything I can think of is so much better than windows for me.

Unlike windows or mac with their expensive licenses , once installed, Linux is yours

Pros: it doesn’t do anything you don’t make it do.

Cons: it doesn’t do anything you don’t make it do.

Pro: It just works and does what its told. Cons: I am concerned that long term viability of open source software in an AI and profit driven via job cuts world.

Miss from windows? Absolutely nothing. It just pisses me off. I have to manage Azure, Windows Server, Deployments, and other microsoft crap. It always just sucks.

Pros it’s not windows.

Cons its Linux.

You will curse it and praise it in the same breath for the rest of your life.

Depends what you do on Windows. As someone who never really got into gaming and who loved programming it was the obvious choice.

Windows singularly fails in some of the most basic operations you could want from an OS. It makes me so angry the way it takes so long to copy a bunch of files, for example. Or if it won’t delete some files because one ‘is still in use’ but it won’t tell me which one or which program is using it! Why? Its infuriating.

Linux has none of these issues. And with a enough time, native ports of some of the games I used to play became available. I would never go back to Windows now.

Windows has better accessability features than linux does. Itsn ot talked about much but ive been in meetings with people with disabilities, survivors of accidents, etc… and Windows is the only real option. If you are blind there are standard programs that they use.

Its the one area i think linux could use real work. A couple of places ive put in pull requests to help out from time to time.

Otherwise linux is generally better ;)

Linux Pros - I don’t even notice anymore after decades of use. I think it’s great. I guess i could say that it’s nice that it won’t try very hard to protect you from yourself.

Linux’s Cons - CAD software still sucks which means i’m never going into a career based on design, engineering, or 3d printing. Also, I guess I could say it won’t try very hard to protect you from yourself.

So, there is some aggravation (not really a con) in terms of package management systems.

You have MANY options not limited to your standard repo tools like yum, pacman, apt, etc. You also have 3rd party ones like flatpak and snap. You could also throw in the AppImage format to that. Arch has the AUR on top of that which usually means you’re running paru or yay. And then you have things like brew and crates which you might run into.

Working in any of these is straightforward, the problem comes from having to manage them all independently of one another at the same time. Pacman will update standard repo, but not AUR. Paru will update standard repo and AUR, but that doesn’t help with flatpak/snap. Then docker/pods/lxc are in their own little world while you get those handled.

In the end, the more complex you build a system the more complex it is to manage, but it still is an aggravation. I’d still take it over the one-size fits all approach Microsoft has, though.

Linux’s only objective is to get better.

Any commercial OS has the sole objective to make money for its owner.

Linux is how home computing was supposed to be.

Pros:

• Trustable.
• Free.
• The user is in control.
• has many UI.

Cons:

• Still has a bad error message style. I blame GNOME for this. If GNOME follow macOS’s error message style, we won’t have this problem.
• Still has an annoying app installation way. This is why I use AppImage.

I am sorry if my English is bad.