So you are the person of interest? Go to Linuxmint.com and read about the install process. What do you use your computer for? Libreoffice is a great alternative to Word/Excel. Much of the software that I use runs on Linux and Windows - I select for those programs when looking for software.
but I used Mint in the past. I installed it on a spare machine recently, and it was a snap to install. It is easy enough to install it, test and use it, and move on to something else, if you decide that is what you would like to do.
It would be worth your while to do a little bit of reading online. I think Mint is excellent, for beginners and for those that use it and like it and stay with it. Every once in a while someone posts how they like Mint and have kept it as their preferred distro. I happen to use something else now,
Sounds like when there was a major update to Word, Windows or anything else Microsoft.
Things would be a lot easier if she/someone backed up what she wanted to save, and installed the right distro (Mint?), simply writing over the drive - MS will be gone. Then at some point copy the backed up data to the drive.
Unless of course the developers/providers test the platforms being used and decide to block Linux. Unlikely? - one would think. Possible? - very much so.
Moving to is not quite the same as banning is it?
What will you do if you luck out and get a problem that requires the command line? It happens in windows and in Linux.
What is the point of posting a "subscribers only article"?
Uh, what is the point of posting a "subscriber only article"?
something else, if ever.
I have been using Libreoffice for years professionally - docs and spreadsheets. I was often the only Linux user on a multiperson team, sharing files with MS Office users.
Look at the Linux Mint home page and their straight forward install instructions. Use it until you are ready to move on to
I don know mac lineage, but I understand the current line has its roots at least in part based on Linux.
something that works (Windows 7) and make additions/changes as necessary to get to Windows 11, or are you going to write everything from scratch?
Just think how complicated things would be if every OS had to be rewritten completely from scratch. The Internet estimates 40 to 50 million lines of code for Windows 7. The estimate for Windows 11 is from 50 to 100 million lines, depending on a number of factors. Does it make more sense to modify
One of the many nice things about Linux - it is about choice, whatever works for you.
If "they" slap age requirements on Windows and attempt to exclude Linux, etc., it will never survive the lawsuits - which is fine by me.
readily available to install from the repositories.
This is according to the Internet, and as we know, if it is on the internet it must be true! ;^)
Interestingly, Fedora Silverblue doesn't install any programming languages (by design - immutable), but there are languages avaiable to install. I run Manjaro, and it too (!) doesn't install languages by default (because of the Arch minimalist philosophy), but there are at least 8
Depending on your interests there are (or should be) a number of different programming languages available in the repositories for the Linux distros, at least those that I have used.
I did Microsoft tech support for Windows hardware, Win 95 and Win 98 (with a MS contractor). I continue to use the Internet to troubleshoot - for Windows and Linux.
Not to be a nit picker, but, I've been tinkering with and then using Linux since around 2000. I coded Basic and Fortran on the computer mainframes in grad school in the 1980s. I wrote batch files for MS-DOS. I never "learned" or coded anything for Linux. I used the Internet for troubleshooting when
In my simple mind, serial grifting and blatant corruption are not in any way interpretable as being part of tRump's official duties, nor that of his toadies. There should be lots of fodder for criminal investigations and leveling of federal and state charges, once there is an administration change.
An internet search on "Linux Mint reposition icons on bottom panel" comes up with instructions for Cinnamon and for Mate/Xfce.
Capture One has an interesting article on why they have no plans to port to Linux.
"Davincinci resolve" on linux gets this: "DaVinci Resolve is natively supported on Linux, with Rocky Linux 8.6 being the only officially recommended distribution by Blackmagic Design." I didn't bother with the others you mentioned. Maybe it works. Maybe it doesn't.
What are the odds of the software you need being ported to Linux? The odds of finding something that already exists that will fit the bill is greater. Does it exist, maybe not. That is not the fault of Linux.
A friend's video card stopped working (Windows). I came to his house, pulled his card, put in a spare card I had and it worked. "Sorry, I can't leave it." I pulled my card and put his card back in, and it worked.
If something has problems under one OS but not the other, I suspect drivers/config.
I get regular updates in Silverblue. Anyway, as I said I don't like Silverblue (don't like Gnome) and it is too restricting for my taste.
If you want stability, why not an immutable distro? Not as easy to modify, some offer roll back if you have problems? I have never used Debian. I am tinkering with Silverblue (which I don't like) but I can see where it would be good for a work/school envionrment. I personally prefer Manjaro.