 Christmas is right around the corner and you may be thinking about putting Linux on someone's computer or giving them a computer with Linux on it and I'm here to tell you to not do that. Linux may be the worst Christmas gift you could possibly give someone. Now I know what you're thinking Matt you're the Linux cast you're supposed to like Linux and I do I love Linux and I think that more people using Linux is a fantastic thing. I think everybody in the world should use Linux or at least should try Linux one time but I don't think it makes a very good Christmas gift and I'm gonna tell you why. The main reason why is if you put Linux on a machine for a person who's non-technical they're not into computers if they're not curious about using new computer things you're going to be putting yourself in a place where you become their technical support. Now if that's a sacrifice you're willing to make that's fine and you can carry on. If you're not willing to be their guide through Linux land it's going to end up being a bad experience both for you and for the person you give the gift to and they may or may not be very happy with that experience. Now the reason why all this is important is for a reason I've talked about before. Linux is not Windows it's not the same and no matter how close you can find a distro to Windows that functions like Windows there's going to be little things in that distro that just function differently whether it's the file picker or changing the wallpaper or changing the clock or changing the time zone you know whatever they're gonna be just little things that are just gonna be just you know just a small smidge different than how they worked on Windows and that's going to confuse them and if they're not curious enough to go search out the answers on how to do things then chances are they're going to call you and if you're not willing to be that guy to help them through that I mean especially over and over again because this is going to be something that happens for a while until they get actually used to their computer again you know if you're not willing to do that then you're both going to have a bad experience so don't put Linux on a non-tech user's computer for Christmas I would say don't do it ever unless you are 100% willing to be that person's technical support for a while until they get a hang of Linux so that's my Christmas advice it's not very positive I know especially when I can you consider I'm like a major Linux fanboy but I just from experience know that if you put Linux on someone's computer as a surprise it may not be a good surprise for them because it's something new that they have to learn and that takes effort that they might may not be willing to expend so that is it for this video just a real quick video for today if you have comments on this can leave those in the comment section below you can follow me on Mastodon or Odyssey those links will be in the video description you can support me on patreon at patreon.com slash the Linux cast links for libera pay and youtuber both in the video description below thanks everybody who does support me on patreon YouTube you guys are all absolutely amazing without you the challenges will not be anywhere near where it is right now so thank you so very very much for your support I truly do appreciate it thanks everybody for watching I'll see you next time