Completely done with Linux forever

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I don't really understand this. I did not find Debian to have a learning curve. I've installed Mint on the computers of a couple of people in the generation above mine and there was not a learning curve. I would consider these people... not tech illiterate but certainly far from fluent.

I don't know if these are 'toy' operating systems, however. And my (casual) observation has been that Debian has seemed to prioritise improving accessibility for new users with each release. I can easily imagine that several years ago it was a much less intuitive on-boarding experience.

I'm surprised you didn't like Mint

The_Face_of_Boo, I think we are agreeing with each other, but I spoke very clumsily.

I was trying to say that I feel sometimes that the present tense is used to describe a situation that possibly no longer prevails... so far as accessibility for new users is concerned. Over the past year or so I have heard many people say, 'I would transition to Linux if it weren't so difficult.' That's still the perception and I wonder about its general applicability.

It is clear that there are still many points at which it can go wrong. But on the basis of my experiences I believe that *right now* Linux can honestly be said to be reasonably accessible as compared to Windows or Mac.

All of this said in full consciousness of my ignorance and certainly not disregarding any of the stories here. It is very far from fail-safe, for sure.

My workstation is currently running openSuSE for the main operating system and has Fedora Silverblue and OpenBSD (which is better than Linux) on virtual machines.

I also had debian on it, but removed it. My workstation is not a real powerful computer, but it does have 32 gigabytes of main memory.

I'd love to have a computer with a CPU with a large number of cores and even more memory. If I did, then I could run many more virtual machines at once.

I have no experience of open bsd. In what respects is it better than Linux