| dual boot. give her a choice. don't force things onto her, even if you think its better. if windows gets slow, she can try linux and see how its faster. i tried giving my sister linux and she's a technically savvy product manager but she still ended up not liking it. you're wife might be really smart, but if the computer doesn't work correctly she will resent you lol. and by "correctly" i mean in any way that she doesn't expect or that is contrary to her intuition, which may have been built using windows. most people generally don't like using computers that much. even i don't as a software engineer. generally most people use computers as an interface to the web, so the OS is mostly irrelevant. But if the OS gets in her way like once or twice and forces her to install some package or whatever, that's just a little unnecessary friction that makes an already unpleasant experience worse. can't go wrong with dual booting anyway. if there's any wifi/hardware issues it might be due to linux or she might just blame linux and think its worse even if its better in your eyes and mine. i mean unless you want to spend extra time doing tech support, which isn't really productive for you, or for her to wait on you when she needs something done. |