That's what I was told about Linux last time I tried it, too. Honestly, if someone in person shows me a Linux box, lets me play around with it, and convinces me it's usable, that is probably the only way I would even consider trying it again. (And given how attached I am to several Windows-only programs, including ones I use on the laptop as well as the desktop, I suspect that still wouldn't cause me to switch.)
Linux developers' (and to some degree users') ideas of what desktop and "ordinary" users who are accustomed to Windows might need seem to have been quite wrong in the past. Given my general dislike of spending money OR time for things to go wrong, it just doesn't make sense to try that again without substantial need.
My Dad would have agreed with you, btw; he loved Linux. But he was also an old-school geek, a physics major who ended up working as a software engineer, and a tinkerer in all ways. And he didn't recommend Linux, even as recently as a few years ago, to users who weren't heavily technical / "geeks". Of course, those were older Linux versions, obviously.
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Linux developers' (and to some degree users') ideas of what desktop and "ordinary" users who are accustomed to Windows might need seem to have been quite wrong in the past. Given my general dislike of spending money OR time for things to go wrong, it just doesn't make sense to try that again without substantial need.
My Dad would have agreed with you, btw; he loved Linux. But he was also an old-school geek, a physics major who ended up working as a software engineer, and a tinkerer in all ways. And he didn't recommend Linux, even as recently as a few years ago, to users who weren't heavily technical / "geeks". Of course, those were older Linux versions, obviously.