Just like how Linus from LTT (just trust me bro on the source) said one day he needed a tool (hammer?) so he walked into the hardware store, found what looked like a hammer, and bought it. End of journey. And then he finally realized how a regular person buys tech. Most people do not care, do not know they should care, and do not care enough to know if they should care enough.
(This is like my niece buying a $5000 Alienware to play Roblox because she thinks she “needs a gaming PC”)
Sort of like how most water cooling requires RGB. ;)
Shoes have a near uniform interface that is easily learned by parents or trial and error. Loading an alternative OS is foreign to most people.
People learn from others the best. Teaching others is the only means for them to realize there are better solutions than sticking with techo-fascist Microsoft.
I'm say this as someone that grew up on MS-DOS and used Windows OS up to Windows 7. After personal exploration, other OSes actually are easier and more stable. You now have to pay me to use Windows OS.
Microsoft is the baddy.
What would their choice be anyways? It's like saying "yet people still die, they do not really care, they even engage in activities which hasten their deaths!"
That's irrelevant, because they don't owe you an excuse to begin with.
"You moved my Chrome. I liked my Chrome. Put it back. I can't get to the Facebook. I want to talk on the Facebook and I can't because you moved my Chrome."
2. These users wouldn't be the people referred to by the article though, right?
this is the real problem with Linux on the desktop for non-power users
Now you can even install something with read-only system partition with snapshots so not even a power outage can corrupt anything.
For non-power users who do need to install something it was never perfect, but now these immutable distributions are here. They have their own downsides though.
1 - Enable wrong ROMFusion because you need these damn video codecs for VLC. I have like 20 years of Linux experience and I still messe up Fedora in 2025 trying to make video work.
2 - Just forget that big update going in background and shutdown system when not appropriate. Boom. On Windows its just much harder to accidentally do it.
Only solution is really distros with immutable root and snapshots.
My kid's grandma (my wife's mom) brought me one Windows laptop too-many to fix "because there were ads everywhere".
I confiscated her laptop (I'm now using Linux on it) and had her buy a Chromebook.
People aren't using Windows under my watch / friends don't let friends/family use that mediocre piece of turd that Windows is / etc.