I'm not tech savvy but I'm switching to Ubuntu or Linux clone this weekend. If I can get that to work I'll never buy another Window product.
While I liked Windows XP & later W7, Windows 8 was terrible and I didn't care for the direction that Microsoft was going with their operating systems. About 10 years ago, I started looking in to the Linux OS's.
I started with Ubuntu and haven't looked back. I also like Linux Mint. Lubuntu is good for older computers. Lubuntu is a lighter version of Ubuntu and is great to bring back and use older machines. There are plenty of good Ubuntu tutorials on Youtube, good luck.
CGato
“...I’m not tech savvy but I’m switching to Ubuntu or Linux clone this weekend. If I can get that to work I’ll never buy another Window product....”
Windows 10 was the final straw for us....no more!!!
We did keep one Dell desktop with Windows 7 for specific windows programs that we don’t want to do without....at least not yet.
The two laptops (1 for her and 1 for me) were wiped clean, upgraded with SSDs and Linux Mint 18.3 Sylvia installed on em.
Linux is a lot of fun to play with, and it has come a long, long ways over the years. So far, we’ve found only 2 needs that we couldn’t fulfill with it: One was a stitching program that my wife uses (proprietary) and the other is the Directv Cisco video player. Currently, they’re only supporting Mac OSX and Windows. Other than that, it does everything else that we had Windows doing previously.
My desktop is a mid-2010 27” iMac with High Sierra installed. That machine is used for stock brokerage and internet surfing.
I had my computer repair shop set me up with dual boot of Linux Mint and Windows 10. You get the best of both worlds on one computer.
I'm not one that uses Linux desktops, but I have a handful of Ubuntu Linux servers I manage at work, and they're bulletproof. I've had an email relay server running for nearly 2 years with only 3 restarts: 2 for major OS patches, and the third when we moved our data center to a new facility.
I really like Ubuntu, and I've heard really good things about Linux Mint, which is based on Ubuntu.
If you download their bootable image, you'll be able to try it before installing it on your system, though it will be substantially slower than if it were running on the hard disk.
Be advised though, there are some apps that will simply not run on Linux under any circumstances, like iTunes. But if you have enough RAM on your system, you should be able to load a virtual machine system, like VirtualBox - https://www.pcsteps.com/184-install-virtualbox-linux-mint-ubuntu/ - to run applications that require Windows. It doesn't work in EVERY instance, but it does work well for the most part.
Mark