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I started on Linux as a kid and let me tell you, being curious about windows, welp that's been horrific.
Curious in this case is a strong term, quite a few of my students are on Windows and that OS is a mess. I don't care much for apple but at least MacBooks work.
people who grew up before tv use windows and Mac computers now. i doubt they could operate a Linux, since i find it daunting even as somewhat of a power user. idk what kind of comparison you're trying to make here but you're absolutely wrong. also i don't remember the last time my windows computer crashed, was infected or anything like that. i keep hearing this from Linux users and it feels like the last time they interacted with a windows computer was in the last millennium.
Well, I can only offer my experience.
I teach programming and Mathematics full-time and I've been doing so for the last few years. I must use 20 different machines every semester.
Every single time, windows users cannot install python, they cannot install latex, SQL etc. And of course every single time the machine is riddled with garbage and just opening the start menu takes seconds. It's probably more correlation than causation, but students on Linux always perform better In the course.
Mac Users certainly have it better but installing basic software (git, fish, ripgrep, neovim etc. ) is still quite challenging.
Much of the teaching staff have been using Linux for the past 5 to 20 years and probably have not relied on Windows since maybe 95/xp/2000 (my old supervisor started on Solaris apparently 🤷)
We sit there amazed that anybody would use this. It runs like shit, It's riddled with ads, installing software is painful, most software isn't packaged for it (exceptions being subscription-based software like Adobe), it's a privacy nightmare and of course you have to pay for the bloody thing.
I guess my point is, maybe you find Linux more difficult than Windows because you've been using Windows for the past 20 years and so you're approaching it from a different perspective.
From our perspective, we could go back to Windows and wouldn't struggle with the technical side of things too much, but there is no doubt that it's an inferior experience.