[DaxtonBrown]

And what people here are telling you is that Linux Mint is now work level commodity out of the box. And it will only get better with time.

Why would you pay money into a system that is designed to make you - pay money? Forever. With viruses. With no productivity gain?

[robroys woman]

And what people here are telling you is that Linux Mint is now work level commodity out of the box. And it will only get better with time.

Why would you pay money into a system that is designed to make you - pay money? Forever. With viruses. With no productivity gain?

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I actually get that. But here is the problem, as I see it: People now buy a computer like they buy a dishwasher or a car. The whole thing comes out of the box, you plug it in, and you are pretty much ready to go. So to use Linux Mint, you have to install it on a computer that is already working just fine. At that point, I put the person in the category of “hobbyist”.

And regarding the money, since computers come with the OS (Windows) already installed, you are no longer paying them any money. It is fully paid for. So if you install Linux, you are replacing something already installed and bought and paid for. Only a hobbyist would do that. The average person is as interested in doing that as they are in replacing the engine in their car when the current one is just fine.

But as I said in an earlier thread, I have two desktops in storage that I may give this a go with. My “inner hobbyist” has not completely dead. Who knows? If this is better than Ubuntu, I just might run with it.

[zeugma]

Why would you pay money into a system that is designed to make you - pay money? Forever. With viruses. With no productivity gain?

Given the threads I see here on FR and elsewhere, every time MS releases a new major upgrade, it's actually a productivity drag, as random people try to deal with the aftermath.