I read “boot”, “side by side with windows, “ubuntu”, Nvidia” and some awfull war flashbacks came back to haunt me.
As someone who grew up toying with both windows, Mac and Linux I think people always underestimate how hard it’ll be to migrate to an OS they never tried before. I’ve seen lots of people getting frustrated that way, regardless of the OS.
So I’d say being an IT guy or a tech illiterate won’t change much in that regard. I guess being an IT might at least give you shortcuts but you’ll still hit a wall if you don’t check beforehand if all your needs will be easy to access and how much pain you’ll have to deal with.
At least that’s my take on it.
But yeah, Ubuntu can be awfull depending on your needs. Windows and Linux don’t make good neighbors, windows is always the one trying to murder the other, and Nvidia is a nasty piece of work.