It's open source, free, has decent online support mainly via forums with other knowledgeable user/designers, and by now has equivalent software to most of the main programmes in windows & apple. I switched to Ubuntu (one of the Linux 'distros') 4 or 5 years ago and haven't looked back. My rather ancient laptop had been seizing up, crashing, going super slow and was about to fail on a windows update hurdle. Ubuntu gave it a new lease of life, and is still going strong. Even the DVD player started working again, long after I'd given up trying to find whatever update it needed to circumvent the planned obsolescence of the thing... Did I mention it's free? My only mistake was using a memory stick with back-up materials on it as the installation device. This corrupts the files, and I haven't been able to access them since - so use a clean stick.

Some articles fyi:

https://linuxvox.com/blog/windows-to-ubuntu/
https://www.howtogeek.com/switching-from-windows-to-linux-a-step-by-step-migration-guide/
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwitchingToUbuntu

This vid gives a feel of what it's like to use:





cheers,
I