Hello. I’ve been a window user from win95. I’d like to learn more about Linux but don’t know where to start. I had a brief intro when I was in highschool and recently I’ve been seeing more and more talk here on Lemmy. Mostly memes.
With how bad Google is finding good information unless I add -reddit to my search. Which I won’t do. Trying to stay away from that.
What can I expect to find as a casual observer? Why does Linux do that’s “better” than Windows? That’s not meant to inflame anyone. More so what do you personally like better.
It’s just so much faster. I can do everything I can in windows(except plug n play gaming) but for free and it’s all faster, and every situation you’ll encounter as a noob has been meticulously detailed in some forum by an expert for another noob who ran into your problem years ago.
And at this point, you can choose any popular flavor of Ubuntu, install it in twenty minutes or less, and the gui is so intuitive you don’t have to even use the terminal if you don’t want to(although it does make you feel like a cool hacker). Just enjoy the secure, free, incredibly fast OS.
Go on YouTube, search for how to install whichever Ubuntu flavor looks cool to you and you’ll be set.
What I like with Linux:
- no restart behing my back to force install updates when I have pending work
- no bloat
- customizable (win11 forcing to having windows of same app groupped grinds my gears!)
Though, it’s not perfect (I guess I have slight hardware issues on my end), I feel way more relaxed (really) when using Linux than Windows.
I don’t know the Windows state currently, but at the time I switched, I liked the following.
- Linux is just a kernel. The user can choose between different components. You’ll see some hot discussions because of that. But user friendly distributions can do these choices for you.
- Linux is transparent. As an open source software its harder to harm user privacy.
One practical thing I like about Linux is that you can control the GUI/window manager independently of the rest of the system. So I can use i3wm, a tiling window manager, and my interface to the computer will be the same — I can upgrade my computer, I can install a new distro, whatever, and I’ll always have the UI I want.