OK so you remember in Windows XP and Vista days when everyone had goofy replacement shells and deviantArt themes that give you a different taskbar/start menu and style titlebars so they’re prettier than the defaults?
That’s what Linux distributions are, they’re all Linux inside but all the stuff on top is different. Ubuntu is a distro that focuses on being easy to use. It has a dock on the left side of the screen and a little statusbar on the top, kinda like mobile OSes.
The two biggest hurdles in switching to Linux blind are figuring out how to run the same (or equivalent) software as you did on Windows, and figuring out how to change a setting that had a simple GUI toggle in Windows but requires editing a config file or something in Linux. Using the command line is easy and fast once you get familiar with a few commands. Once you start to wrap your head around how Linux does stuff you’ll never want to use Windows again.
OK so you remember in Windows XP and Vista days when everyone had goofy replacement shells and deviantArt themes that give you a different taskbar/start menu and style titlebars so they’re prettier than the defaults?
That’s what Linux distributions are, they’re all Linux inside but all the stuff on top is different. Ubuntu is a distro that focuses on being easy to use. It has a dock on the left side of the screen and a little statusbar on the top, kinda like mobile OSes.
The two biggest hurdles in switching to Linux blind are figuring out how to run the same (or equivalent) software as you did on Windows, and figuring out how to change a setting that had a simple GUI toggle in Windows but requires editing a config file or something in Linux. Using the command line is easy and fast once you get familiar with a few commands. Once you start to wrap your head around how Linux does stuff you’ll never want to use Windows again.