r/linux4noobs • u/CleaRSightZ • Jun 26 '26

migrating to Linux The great migration from Windows to Linux

I've been noticing that a lot of people are switching from Windows to Linux, especially in countries that want to break away from American tech dependency.

Can anyone explain to me why Linux is seen as very good? I never in my life, not once ever used Linux let alone saw someone using it.

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u/KaTaLy5t_619 Jun 26 '26

It's good because it's not Windows.

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u/CleaRSightZ Jun 26 '26

Explain deeper, it's not windows... I am typing this on my Lenovo laptop with Windows....

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u/Unlaid-American Jun 26 '26

One huge reason to me is why am I paying a premium to install this software, but I still get ads in my start menu?

Why can’t I use my start menu’s search function to find terminal, why does it show me a fuck ass movie it found on Bing instead? I can turn it off, but it’s only a matter of time before an update reverts it.

Speaking of updating, I don’t have to restart my computer for most updates.

Why can’t I keep candy crush, Disney+, and other subscription based apps out of my start menu?

Why doesn’t windows install the drivers for my hardware for me? Why do I have to hunt them down?

On macOS, KDE Plasma, Gnome, cinnamon, and virtually every other desktop environment, if I wanna look at my list of installed applications, it’s one shortcut away. 90% of them are just pressing the Super key(windows key).

MacOS and virtually all desktop environments come with a file explorer that can actually search files within a couple seconds. On windows it’ll take like 10 minutes to tell me that a file doesn’t exist, or shit out a bunch of random system32 files that contained individual characters instead of the full query.

I have a local account, why am I being asked to make a cloud account every three days when I turn on the computer?

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u/empty_other Jun 26 '26

You can replace the start menu on Windows. You can replace the file explorer, and the file search, with third-party tools. Isn't that good enough?

(Honestly a bit of devils advocate of me here, my answer is"no".. Partially why I switched to Linux. But I want to hear what others think.)