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One proven approach:

Older stable Windows versions for office work and non-internet hardware, air-gapped away from internet access.

Linux for the internet to concentrate on what it takes to avoid Microsoft's web, once you're more confortable there, then more smoothly migrate away from Windows for office work too.

Hurry up before the new PC's no longer have drivers for the older Windows versions.

Archive everything.

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Proven but unlikely. Linux on the desktop is still not a thing the masses will adopt, despite all the times we hear that someone put Ubuntu on their grandparents' computer and it turned out fine.

My best guess is because the bar set low enough gets to people who don't install software at all, so ubuntu has a good default package.

Once you get to a higher bar where people do need to install software, Ubuntu loses that audience (because they wouldn't find the software they expect to)

I'll probably start offering Linux to business clients. 90% of mine just need an os with a web browser these days. The 10% that don't I'll push to migrate to cloud offerings of whatever software is keeping them on windows and migrate to Linux after that. It's been some serious consideration for me to go down this path but it's what I forsee happening. It'll be framework laptops and Linux. Gonna have to bite the bullet tho and do a whole host of work settling on a disrtro/rollout and support plan. I'm lucky tho and many of my clients are heavy on ethics, right to repair and so on, so apple won't get a look in at all.

I personally am going to bring linux to my whole family. I do still use Windows for gaming, although I do plenty linux gaming too thanks to the steam deck.

You have some nice customers! I was lucky to join a company that allowed me to choose linux as OS, the previous company strictly refused. I'm strong on Linux, but I won't lie that sometimes things are pretty rough, even with widely supported distros (Fedora, Kubuntu)

I switched to Linux from Windows and it was quite the burden for a while. Steep learning curve, a lot of time needed. I think for mass adoption it will need to coalesce around one distro and functionality. Iow, it's got to get really easy. Apple level "just works" before there is mass adoption.

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