{"id":245850,"date":"2026-05-14T10:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T14:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/linux-is-incredible-but-these-4-things-will-frustrate-you-if-youre-not-ready\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T10:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T14:25:08","slug":"linux-is-incredible-but-these-4-things-will-frustrate-you-if-youre-not-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/linux-is-incredible-but-these-4-things-will-frustrate-you-if-youre-not-ready\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux is incredible, but these 4 things will frustrate you if you&#8217;re not ready"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/know-these-things-before-switching-to-linux\/\">Linux is incredible, but these 4 things will frustrate you if you&#8217;re not ready<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/know-these-things-before-switching-to-linux\/\">https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/know-these-things-before-switching-to-linux\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-14 10:01:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.makeuseof.com\">www.makeuseof.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Switching from Windows to Linux is one of the best things I\u2019ve done in 2026. I\u2019ve genuinely loved the experience so far, with no ads, no random background junk, and far more control over privacy. But I have to be honest: telling someone to \u201cjust switch to Linux\u201d is not enough advice to actually get started.<\/p>\n<p>There are a few things I feel everyone should know before making the switch. It\u2019s not that these things would\u2019ve stopped me from switching, but being aware of them beforehand would\u2019ve made the transition way less frustrating.<\/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=\"not-every-windows-app-has-a-proper-linux-replacement\">\n                        Not every Windows app has a proper Linux replacement<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"some-workflows-are-harder-to-replace-than-others\">\n            Some workflows are harder to replace than others<br \/>\n    <\/h3>\n<p>                  &#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/know-these-things-before-switching-to-linux\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linux is incredible, but these 4 things will frustrate you if you&#8217;re not ready https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/know-these-things-before-switching-to-linux\/&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":245852,"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\/pixel-9a-running-full-linux-distro-on-external-monitor.JPG?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71,110],"class_list":["post-245850","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\/245850"}],"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=245850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245854,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245850\/revisions\/245854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}