Heyho, recently asked for the silliest reasons, but as someone who has suggested linux to many people, I often encounter people having valid reasons for staying with Windows or switching back.
The most boring but valid one is “I have to use Windows for work. It is a requirement (of some software I have to use)”. But there are also other answers that fit. My sister for example tried Linux, but while installing software constantly encountered issues that I helped her solve and eventually switched back because she felt like she had less control than over windows. While I am aware that this is fundamentally wrong, it is valid that some amateur users do not want to invest enough time to get over the initial hurdles of relearning how to install software.
What are the best reasons people have given you for not wanting to try Linux?
Honestly, the very best i got from a client of mine, a veterinarian who is about 80, he runs his whole Praxis on a Commodore PET (i mean, its a natural choice for a veterinarian), which he bought somewhere around the time i was born. His reason: “I don’t need no Windows, i need no Linux or anything other than the computer i am accustomed to. It does what i need and it will do so till the day i die”.
Based.
And the Vet won’t get any AI Slop. Good for them. But the PET? Please update to the C64 or at least the VIC-20.
Why? The PET does what they need and has a crisp, clear built-in display.
This is the point. About twenty years ago when I first met this guy I thought I HAD to convince him to upgrade to something more modern because, well, “new is better” I guess. Luckily he declined my offers and stayed with this system.
Now, this man is for me what would call a living legend. He bought this system when the PET was brand new, state of the art tech and was perhaps the first veterinarian in a radius of 100 km with a computer. From this point on he wrote himself tons of software for his personal use, modified this software for changing circumstances (and still does so!) and kept this system running.
THAT is permacomputing!