Paolo wrote: Sun Aug 21, 2022 7:07 pm For me, Linux Mint might have looked pretty much the same, and acted the same in many ways as Windows, but it was still frustrating enough, and slowed me down enough, to deem it unusable. I never did figure out how to move a file from a Windows PC on a flash drive to the Linux computer, and then be able to open it and work with the file. Something that simple?
Surprisingly, what looks simple on the surface, is... not so simple, if you go deeper.
Some filesystems are undocumented or badly documented (NTFS, I am looking at you). Some file formats are even worse in documentation (from undocumented to well... microsoft's document format specification (the .docx one) grew to ~6000 pages during standardization process, and still allows for undocumented inclusions in the file. And I am not starting the discussion that M$ doesn't even read it's own older formats that well. (And do not start me on documents that lose normal formatting if you lack EXACTLY SAME fonts on computer, I dealt with that shit one too many times). But in general - unless file format is relatively exotic - most generic files do work and open.
At worst - you'd have to install the software from windows on linux machine (may be a quest in it's own right, but can work).