I’ve put Fedora on my mum’s pc after it became clear that Win10 will EoL soon, and that Win11 would refuse to run on it. Have had significantly fewer support requests since then.
Her work is mostly done via Citrix, which has an official Fedora Client. Everything else happens in the Browser, or sometimes in OnlyOffice, which so far has worked as a drop-in replacement for MS Office.
As always, it really depends on the use case.
Never understood why people are so amazed at this. Like, great if you have no appointments that far out, just write this one down in your calendar, don’t plan anything else on that day.
I’ve got ADD, and that still works most of the time.
Honestly - I think end to end encrypted email isn’t that important, as long as you don’t ensure that your recipients are also using end to end encrypted solutions. Still, one should keep in mind that this isn’t, which limits it’s use for sensitive applications.
On the other hand, end to end encryption for file storage seems vital to me, and the only thing I’d use these 3 tb for is already encrypted archives and backups.
I don’t think the average user thinks much about the platform they’re on, and about who controls it. I think they go to wherever most of their family/friends are.
Also, those platforms are firmly in the mainstream, the alternatives aren’t really - you’d have to actively go search for them. People just aren’t likely to do that, I don’t think.
I’m sure it’s a common enough occurrence in a community with lots of computer nerds.
I do recognise that there are a lot of usecases in which Linux isn’t currently the sensible choice for most users, but I also feel the ready/not ready thing is quite as clear cut. While I’m obviously rather biased, I do genuinely think that there is a subset of casual users that would do better with Linux than with Windows.
I could talk about how Windows has been a lot more problematic for me than Linux, but that has been mainly down to driver issues with a specific network adapter, and we both know that isn’t the reason I prefer Linux anyway.