What I have learned is that in the last 30 years of being told that I should switch to Linux on the desktop is that I should stop listening to these people’s ideological perspective and just get on with creating and doing shit. Because that’s far more important. I’ll take Excel and Adobe over any of the alternatives.
I am not even sure I’m happy with it on the server these days. FreeBSD is far less nasty.
I guess my point was that we're going to lose more potential users by over promising instead of just being honest.
It's built on an ideology.
It's pretty good but, when you struggle, we're here to help.
Things will be different, sometimes in very stupid ways, but there are multiple choices, with tradeoffs, YOU get to decided on.
The big corporations aren't really interested in you as a target demographic, but do you really want them to be?
All that sounds way more inspiring than "It'S tHe SaME thING, bUTT FReEEEEEdOm" which gets proven factually incorrect within the first 5 minutes of attempted productive use.