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1993 called and wants the inferior FOSS software you last tried back. Haha.
I find that Linux apps for basic stuff are now well ahead of their Windows counterparts.
It's getting hard to find quality free software that is Windows native, and not just a recompile of a Mac or Linux tool.
I'm happy to pay for software too, but the paid stuff has all been shit, for awhile, in my weird experiences. (Weird, in that I'm not doing music or video editing or non-developer power user stuff. I've heard mileage may vary with those.)
dude, linux is not a desktop for non-programmers.
It’s for people who aren’t tech literate. The people who don’t know/shouldn’t be using cli commands or editing the registry.
My experience installing Linux for tech illiterate parents and grandparents was lovely.
They never noticed they're not on Windows. They just wanted their two desktop icons - web and email.
Edit: Funny related story - they (grandparents) always rebooted with the power button after Linux told them it had updated - which was almost never necessary. I always just told them "good job", when they mentioned it, though.