I always laugh when people reuse that old canard about Linux being free if you don’t value your time. The cumulative cost of the maintenance headaches of MS-windows far outstrips the time most folks would spend tinkering with a modern Linux distribution like Mint or Fedora. Dealing with JUST antivirus software and antimalware stuff alone puts that old canard to rest.
I always laugh when people claim that linux being a time suck is a canard.
If linux were easier to install, maintain, and use, it would be on the majority of business PCs.
It’s not, because it’s a time suck.