If you have an “old laptop” or something like that kicking around, I recommend installing Linux on that and trying to use that for as many of your work/school/productivity/whatever tasks as you can while you still have a Windows machine.
There will be a transition period, Linux is not Windows and Libreoffice isn’t MS Office. I spent about two years occasionally running into variations of this scenario:
I need to do a thing.
This is a simple thing I do regularly. I can do it in seconds on Windows.
It’s not done the way I’m used to on Linux; the button for it isn’t where I’d think to find it.
What do you even call this thing? How do I google how to do it?
Dang it I’m wasting so much time on this. I need to turn this in soon, it’s eating up too much time.
I’m getting frustrated because I don’t have the time at this moment to learn how to do this, I just need it done.
It helped me to be able to stop, boot into Windows, get it done so I could move on, and when the pressure of a deadline is off, suddenly it’s easier to learn how to do it in Linux. Then you know how and you don’t have to boot into Windows for that thing. It prevents those FUCK THIS I"M GONG BACK TO WINDOWS I DON"T CARE ANYMORE !!!1!! moments.
If you have an “old laptop” or something like that kicking around, I recommend installing Linux on that and trying to use that for as many of your work/school/productivity/whatever tasks as you can while you still have a Windows machine.
There will be a transition period, Linux is not Windows and Libreoffice isn’t MS Office. I spent about two years occasionally running into variations of this scenario:
I need to do a thing.
This is a simple thing I do regularly. I can do it in seconds on Windows.
It’s not done the way I’m used to on Linux; the button for it isn’t where I’d think to find it.
What do you even call this thing? How do I google how to do it?
Dang it I’m wasting so much time on this. I need to turn this in soon, it’s eating up too much time.
I’m getting frustrated because I don’t have the time at this moment to learn how to do this, I just need it done.
It helped me to be able to stop, boot into Windows, get it done so I could move on, and when the pressure of a deadline is off, suddenly it’s easier to learn how to do it in Linux. Then you know how and you don’t have to boot into Windows for that thing. It prevents those FUCK THIS I"M GONG BACK TO WINDOWS I DON"T CARE ANYMORE !!!1!! moments.