Part of the problem with Linux is that it's not normie friendly enough to really challenge Windows as an OS. Until last year when I downgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 11, I never had a reason to even look anywhere other than Windows because it was simple enough to use that I didn't need to watch a youtube tutorial. I learned basically everything about Windows through just clicking through settings, etc. to see what they did. Everything runs on Windows as well, and if you play games you basically don't have a choice.
Linux on the other hand is not normie friendly. It requires effort to understand and keep up with. It can't run a lot of games, especially live service games, and running other programs can require a lot more effort than simply clicking on an icon like Windows.
I pray to god that Steam OS or whatever it is that Gabe Newell is working on can function on a level similar enough to Windows that it can dethrone it as a normie friendly OS so that we aren't reliant on Microslop anymore.
I would love to see Linux get to that level of UX, but it's so goddamn far away. I pivoted to Windows 10 LTSC but that's just me buying myself some time in the hopes that Linux or Microsoft can get their respective shit together in time to not take the whole PC landscape into a new dark age.
Part of the problem with Linux is that it's not normie friendly enough to really challenge Windows as an OS. Until last year when I downgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 11, I never had a reason to even look anywhere other than Windows because it was simple enough to use that I didn't need to watch a youtube tutorial. I learned basically everything about Windows through just clicking through settings, etc. to see what they did. Everything runs on Windows as well, and if you play games you basically don't have a choice.
Linux on the other hand is not normie friendly. It requires effort to understand and keep up with. It can't run a lot of games, especially live service games, and running other programs can require a lot more effort than simply clicking on an icon like Windows.
I pray to god that Steam OS or whatever it is that Gabe Newell is working on can function on a level similar enough to Windows that it can dethrone it as a normie friendly OS so that we aren't reliant on Microslop anymore.
I would love to see Linux get to that level of UX, but it's so goddamn far away. I pivoted to Windows 10 LTSC but that's just me buying myself some time in the hopes that Linux or Microsoft can get their respective shit together in time to not take the whole PC landscape into a new dark age.