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This is multiple articles mushed together. I suggest separating into articles that each have a specific purpose and message. The windows/Microsoft discussion can be on, the intro to Linux another (the burger shop stuff), the distros another, and lastly the installation stuff.
That said, having switched to Linux about a year ago for exactly the reasons you mentioned, I would not have found this article useful. There are many other resources that cover each of these topics in more helpful and friendly ways. This article is both too broad and lacking depth where needed. It sounds a little bit like your personal journal and a narrative of your path. It may be helpful for you personally to write that down, but I'm struggling to see how this helps a potential reader.
Some questions to consider:
What do think a reader would do next after reading your article?
What value or message would they take away from it?
Who is your audience and what new knowledge should they have after reading this?
I appreciate the input, thanks for reading!
The goal of this script is really just to act as a jumping off point for anyone trying to figure out what to do or where to go after the end of Windows 10, or people just barely starting to get into Linux for the first time. I've also only been pretty consistently in the Linux space for about a year, and I wanted to write something that would answer a lot of the questions that I had and things I had a hard time understanding initially, and explain them in a simple to understand way.
It's not supposed to be an incredibly in depth guide and I hope I didn't really frame it that way, I really just want it to be a starting point to build more knowledge off of, a gateway into the greater Linux community. My main goal is just to make Linux accessible without scarinf people off with the inner workings and complex parts, while still encouraging people to learn about those things if they'd like to.
I'm thinking that if I tell things from my own experience as a pretty average computer user, it can help other pretty average computer users see it as a viable option, and I've been told by some others I've had read through it that it's been very helpful for them.