{"id":237158,"date":"2026-04-29T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/29\/i-finally-tried-linux-and-realized-every-reason-i-avoided-it-was-outdated\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T15:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T19:45:07","slug":"i-finally-tried-linux-and-realized-every-reason-i-avoided-it-was-outdated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/29\/i-finally-tried-linux-and-realized-every-reason-i-avoided-it-was-outdated\/","title":{"rendered":"I finally tried Linux and realized every reason I avoided it was outdated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/reasons-people-avoid-linux-are-outdated\/\">I finally tried Linux and realized every reason I avoided it was outdated<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/reasons-people-avoid-linux-are-outdated\/\">https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/reasons-people-avoid-linux-are-outdated\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-29 15:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.makeuseof.com\">www.makeuseof.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Linux has always carried a certain reputation. Most people still associate it with developers, command lines, and endless compatibility issues, enough to scare away the average user before they even try it. As a lifelong Windows user, I avoided it for that exact image.<\/p>\n<p>But after all those \u201cjust switch to Linux\u201d comments under almost every Windows article I wrote, I finally gave in. As a complete beginner, I picked the most user-friendly distros I could find: Linux Mint. And honestly, after spending a week, I realized most of the reasons I had avoided Linux were either exaggerated or completely outdated.<\/p>\n<p>                    <span data-field=\"label\" class=\"article-card-label\">Related<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"display-card-title \">\n<p>\t\t\t5 programs you need to know about as a Linux user<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p class=\"display-card-excerpt\">Linux is more than a backup OS, and these programs prove it.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"you-can-use-linux-without-the-terminal\">\n                        You can use Linux without the terminal<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"i-barely-touched-the-command-line\">\n            I barely touched the command line<br \/>\n    <\/h3>\n<p>One of the biggest things that kept me from trying Linux was the Terminal. As a lifelong Windows user, I\u2019ve always preferred clicking through menus over typing commands&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/reasons-people-avoid-linux-are-outdated\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally tried Linux and realized every reason I avoided it was outdated https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/reasons-people-avoid-linux-are-outdated\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":237159,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.makeuseofimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/wm\/2026\/04\/linux-mint-23-2-zena-with-terminal-open-on-a-laptop.JPG?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71,110],"class_list":["post-237158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux","tag-linux-mint"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237160,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237158\/revisions\/237160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}