


It took a few weeks of acclimatising, but in all honesty the average Linux distro is no harder to use than Windows these days, because an awful lot of hard work has gone into making mainstream distros as user-friendly as possible.

I tossed Windows overnight in the Spring of 2014, and dived head-first into the murky backwaters of the Linux eco-system. I'd keep XP for use offline, if you have specific apps you find run better with that elderly OS.but I'd run a Linux distro of some kind, either from a flash drive, or an external HDD/SSD, for any kind of browsing or internet-facing activity.įar safer & more secure.and many more folks do this than are prepared to admit it! There seems to be this strange misconception that if you're running anything other than Windows, you're not running a "proper" OS.which I find to be a very strange mind-set indeed.
