That’s good to know and I’m happy you’ve had success moving users. Keep up the good work.

I think converting users to Linux tends to face three major issues:

• A historical reputation for being hard to configure and use, even though that is generally no longer the case with mainstream distros.

• Fear of the command line.

• Decision paralysis due to the sheer number of options available for things like distro and desktop environment, and the fact that there are as many opinions as there are users. I’m an obvious example of this.

Technical people like me tend, I think, to appreciate the flexibility. Normals just want something that works immediately and without any fuss.

That would depend on how directory and clipboard sharing are configured. There are some potential problems if the user is looking to share files between the VM and the host.

Unfortunately that uses the Plasma desktop which looks similar but is much more complicated to (re)configure and less like Windows. It might drive a switcher away through frustration.

Ubuntu Linux is the most popular distribution but it uses the Gnome desktop by default, which many Windows users may find to be a stumbling block since it looks and acts nothing like the Windows desktop. The standard distribution of Linux Mint uses the Cinnamon desktop, which is much closer in look and feel to Windows, and it is based on Ubuntu so most users can benefit from the technical support of the Ubuntu community.

[Edit: corrected “Linux” to “Ubuntu Linux.” thanks grue@lemmy.world.]

A virtual machine running Windows will act exactly like a bare metal machine, with all the telemetry and advertising and such.