XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: me@privacy.invalid   
      
   On Mon, 27 Oct 2025 14:00:00 +0000, Windows Devil wrote:   
      
   > Most Windows users are not interested in switching to Linux. No matter   
   > how hard the Linux community tries to attract new users,   
      
   In my experience, the Linux community doesn't always welcome new users   
   that are switching from Linux. Some users are right out arrogant; happy   
   in their ivory tower. That's not the way to persuade other people to   
   make the switch.   
      
   > Windows users   
   > will stick with what they know. They might experiment with a version of   
   > Linux for a couple of days, but then abandon it in favour of buying a   
   > new laptop with the latest version of Windows pre-installed. Better the   
   > devil you know.   
      
   I've been playing with various Linux distributions for years now. Mostly   
   live USB and on a rare occasion an old computer. Now I have a laptop   
   with Linux Mint to experiment.   
      
   The main thing that hold me back is the loss of the freeware that I use   
   on W11. The only paid software I have is W11, Dashcam Viewer and Forté   
   Agent and I definitely don't want to loose that. I know it runs under   
   Wine (sort of), but it doesn't support SSL, so I would have to work with   
   something like stunnel.   
      
   I could try and see which ones run under Wine or I could search for   
   alternatives that run under Linux.   
      
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