[–] angelorum ago (edited ago)
I think this can be a litle dificult question to answer because i think it depends of what do you want to do with linux.
If you want to use one computer only to browser, emails, multimédia, normal stuff... it is not dificult, can be more easy and it is even recomended, in linux can be more easy to install software then windows because you dont need to search the software in websites to install and risky get malware from pishing websites, you have linux distros that you simply only open the install program with all windows stuff and just chose the software you want like "select firefox" and click install and done it...
Now the problem of be dificult to switch to linux can happen depending on what linux distro you want to use like... [ubuntu is more easy to install then arch linux or gentoo], or... when you want to change some stuff like linux configurations and you need to use the terminal and need to do it and type commands in our keyboard... and you are not used to terminal and need to do the stuff so here you will need to learn and study a litle get used... but that you will need to learn with time depending on what you want to do it with linux.
So... i dont think is dificult if you use some distros like ubuntu and you just want to install normal software like firefox... the dificult to newbies can be if you want to do some stuff and you need to use the terminal and you are not used, and dont forget there are some software to windows that dont work in linux so you need to find one alternative software or you can use the "wine" that can allow you to run windows software in linux but is not very recomended sometimes because if you have virus in windows they can run in linux, or just install dual boot linux and windows in the same computer. I know one person once that he was a computer security and he tell me that he is one hybrid user so he get the best of bouth operating systems... linux and windows. So some stuff you probablly want to do in windows other stuff you probablly want to do in it linux. And... dont forget... you dont have only gnome to your windows manager you have kde, Xfce, mate, LXDE, and others more to chose what we like and think is the best for the system we want.
My personal recommendation is if you are newbie and you are used to windows dont clean the windows from your computer and install only linux and switch... just install bouth windows and linux in the same computer and when you start the computer you can chose the operating system you want. So when you need linux you go linux and when you need windows you go windows. Later then you can chose if you want to use dual boot or you want to use only linux.
Personal my operating system is linux and i do my stuff there but sometimes i go to windows to... like play games that dont run in linux and you dont want to install wine in linux, this stuff... Linux is recomended and have very benefits, i serious recommend everyone to try it and use it like your main operating system.
[–] CaptnObvius ago
No, its easy, but like all things there is a learning curve, but boy will you be happy.
[–] Master_Foo 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
Windows power users have a hard time switching to Linux. But, boomers should have no problem.
I got tired of listening to my mom whinge every time a windows alert popped up for any smallest obnoxious reason. She's convinced every alert is a virus. So, I installed Ubuntu and I never hear a peep out of her because it doesn't go out of it's way to terrify old women into thinking something is broken.
Thanks Ubuntu. You saved my mom from being abandoned uncerimoniously at the old folk's home.
[–] TrevorLahey 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
"Windows power users" are merely corporate drones stuck with what's handed to them. The same goes for US DoD personnel and support contractors. No intelligent thinking person with the tiniest mote of technical acuity would willfully chose to use Windows for anything other than a toy gaming console (the one thing it does well). It's inferior by design and regressing in leaps with each release iteration. The technically-proficient use Linux, the rest use Mac and Linux derivatives such as Chromebooks.