KDE Encourages Windows 10 Users to Switch to Linux
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People that do these sorts of remote work via GUIs exist. But yes, the switch is likely pretty obvious to them. I for one used to do it with Minecraft server stuff, I had FileZilla; Dolphin pretty much replaced that instantly for me. MUCH later, scripts replaced Dolphin.
Is it though? They'd face the same issues switching to MacOS. There's no point in lying that some of their favorite programs may not work. I still miss Paint.net though GIMP has grown on me a lot.
Nobody is going to leave their old Windows files on their OS drive AND install Linux unless their goal is to dual boot (and that's clearly not who this is for).
The entire file system needs to be replaced in the process of installing Linux, so there's no "somebody should find a better solution to this." The only way to do it would be to relocate and resize partitions as files are copied ... and that's incredibly dangerous. Not to mention attempting to guess what files are important to the Windows user has a high probability to fail.
This advice is good. You should regularly copy stuff you care about to an external hard drive and ideally use a backup program anyways. SSDs don't fail as fast as HDDs did, but it will happen someday (or very well could).
Yeah, I've never liked this as an argument for Linux. People should update software (at least when there's a security related issue) ... for the exact same reason they should ditch Windows 10. However, as you said "Having to explain to people that their perfectly working computer is actually not working despite all available evidence is a bit of an issue."
Many people prefer to roll the dice with those issues.