How do you like using Linux? My son, who works in tech industry, says I should use it. Was it really difficult to learn?
We’ve only been on it for a week, and people keep telling us how wonderful it is. For the stuff that we do, it’s pretty simple; but my husband has been having trouble figuring out remote-desktopping; and I’m having trouble with copying and pasting - but maybe that’s my new mouse.
It seems to have been designed to be similar to Windows, for new users of Linux; and I guess that with practice, it will all come out in the wash. We are using Linux Mint 17.3.
You do have to learn that things are in different places than they were in W 7, which is what we used until MS hijacked our computer :-)
We don’t use any complicated stuff - just email, searching/reading websites, occasionally a spreadsheet; so YMMV.
There are ways to ‘dual boot’, so that you can use both - which I ‘m also too ignorant to understand; but we didn’t go that route. We’re stil in the experimental stage. So far, for the little things that I do on the Internet, it works fine.
-JT
If you get Linux and then load the deskop style called Cinnamon, it looks and operates a lot like Windows 7. I have Linux Ubuntu with Cinnamon desktop and Windows 10 loaded on my laptop computer. I’ve been using Linux about 1 year. I’ve used Windows since 1990 and Windows 3.0.
I just recently got a Chromebook, also. Think of a Chromebook as Google Windows. It was only about $150 and boots in about 8 seconds. Chromebook runs a copy of the Chrome browser. You can load all kinds of Chrome browser apps in it. If you only browse the internet and create a few documents, then a Chromebook might be for you. I really like the Chromebook.