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I Don't See a Reason to Switch to Windows from Linux Anymore in 2025 (itsfoss.com)

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[–] MudMan@fedia.io 1 points 5 hours ago

I disagree with your argument, though. It depends on why people aren't trying Linux. If they aren't trying Linux because they don't know it exists, then yeah, sure.

But it's been over twenty years. If Linux was convincing people who just stumble upon it reliably it would have done better than going from 2 to 4%. In the time since you've been able to install Ubuntu ("it installs just like Windows!", the PC magazines said at the time) mobile phones were taken over by Symbian, replaced by iOS almost entirely and then iOS lost the lead to Android.

So no, not everybody has tried it, but a whole lot of people have heard of it and avoided it for its (earned) reputation for being finicky, incompatible and hard to set up without tech expertise. If you solve the issues I'm calling out you solve that issue as well.