Honestly, if you:

• don’t care about data getting collected on an os you paid for
• don’t care about getting ads on an os you paid for
• don’t care about performance and have a fast computer
• (*) can’t bother re-leaning how to do some things
• (*) can’t bother facing and debugging some problems that you might encounter
• (*) don’t care about being able to do things faster, at the cost of knowing exactly where to find things the moment you start using the system
• don’t care about being able to customize any part of the system however you want

then you might want to stay on Windows.

(*) this depends on which distribution you choose. some are very similar to windows and beginner friendly.

Broski, Linux is as complicated as you want it to be. There are several “distributions” or distros out there. You can find distributions that are just command line interface (command prompt) which is great if you want the lightest OS to run tasks and scripts etc. You can probably run these with 1gb of ram or even less.

Then you have distributions that are more robust, designed for your everyday user. Some that i have used are Ubuntu, Fedora, Redhat.

These have GUI or a graphical user interface so they should feel like a simple version of windows but without any bloat ware or services you don’t need.

You can ask Google or this community on which distro is best for you depending on your needs.

Installing any distro is as easy as installing windows.

1. Load up a distro on an USB
2. Have a PC with a drive with space for another OS or just have a PC with an empty hard drive.
3. Install and follow the prompts.

You’ll then be able to search the webs for freeware, for your new OS