It is convincing, and if I was starting out afresh, or had a spare computer just to play with, I would do it. The trouble is, I have 6 years of files and software all based on Windows, which wouldn't be fully compatible with Linux, so to go to all the trouble of getting to know it, when I could never actually use it day to day, seems less than worthwhile.
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