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Microsoft has been giving people reasons to switch to Linux for quite a while. They started with the major overhaul of the Office UI. Then they came out with Windows 10. Ubuntu and Libre Office are just so much easier to work with.


Yeah, I have seen that remark when XP came out, then it was Vista, followed up by how Windows 7 would drive everyone into Linux, then was how Windows 8 would do it, ....

Somehow there is a pattern here, meanwhile Steam Hardware survey still shows GNU/Linux desktops at 1% on average.


Yes, and most people can't do the most basic administrative tasks on Windows. Still, they stick to Windows. It is irrational.


Irrational is expecting such users to be comfortable in environments that put UNIX straight on their face.

Apple and Google OS might use a UNIX like kernel, but none of such users will ever realise it, unless they go for the blue pill.


I installed Ubuntu for my mother-in-law and she quite likes it.

I found my sister-in-law using Libre Office one day and she actually said it was nice and easy to use.

So I think people's image both of Windows and of Linux are a bit outdated.


The large majority of desktop users do not have free IT at a price of a phone call, hence 1% on Steam.




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