Dozens of different distributions are available as Virtual Machines and you can try them in 5-15 minutes (taking into account the time to download, configure and run).
(and there are also ready-made Live USB images)
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Excuse 2. Hard to install Apps
There are now app stores for Linux that allow you to quickly install all the essentials (office applications, messengers etc) just as quickly as you can in the App Store or Google Play.
Excuse 4. There are too few applications for Linux
If you look at the contents of the Github repository "Awesome Linux Software", you will see more than 1,500 applications for a wide variety of tasks, including highly professional ones.
Excuse 6. Linux tutorials too often mention the command line and it is too complicated
Yes, many things are fastest to do with #CLI.
If you find an obscure command in a friend's tutorial or on a forum, just decode it with the special tool:
If this thread has inspired you to try Linux and you are also into #osint, I have a separate thread about distributions specifically designed for #cybersecurity professionals.
- live maps (weather, fire, clouds)
- historic maps (worldwide, countries, towns)
- local conflicts and disasters maps
- satellite maps
- ability to upload your own maps
If you look at a person's history of posts on social media, you can gather a lot of interesting info about them. One of the simplest way to automate this:
Save the feed of posts in PDF (using the Ubikron ext or others)
Process PDF with different online tools (summarize etc)
A repository with text files containing a million dorks for finding potentially vulnerable web pages and sensitive data (in Google and other search engines).