From Windows to Fedora: A beginners Guide to the Open Source World

What is Fedora, why it exists, and why a lifelong Windows user like me decided to make the leap and never looked back. Why I'm Writing This For most of my life, Windows was just what computers ran. It was the default, the familiar, the thing that was always just... there. I never questioned it. Open the laptop, see the Windows logo, get to work. Simple. But if you are a developer and as you move to more complicated projects, you will realise that this thinking quickly hits a wall. There's a particular kind of frustration that only a Windows developer knows, a package that refuses to install because of some missing build tool, a terminal that behaves differently from every tutorial you follow, path issues that make no sense, environment variables that need a restart to take effect. You spend more time fighting the system than actually building things. Then Outreachy, a program that opens doors to open-source contribution for underrepresented folks in tech, introduced me to Fedora. I won