Im happy that i use linux.

if anyone advertises Linux it would be gabe newell

"How do you make Linux more popular?" Windows 11: hold my bloatware

My school used Linux, not just the schools, every government organisation uses Linux here, and they give a Linux laptop installed with a customised Ubuntu for every student and government employee, it's helped a lot with the popularity of Linux in my state, almost everybody is aware of Linux here. It happened mostly due to a moment in the 2000s where a bunch of free software foundation members convinced the government to use Linux, now the government also has a dedicated department to contribute to open source and develop tools

The problem isn't with Linux, it's with companies that don't release compitable versions for their software (even on wine). I heard of so much people just saying that their favorite adobe software / game doesn't work, and it's mainly a problem with anti-cheats.

I think one of the problems with Linux growth as a Desktop is the... what is it called? "Chicken and Egg problem"? Developers/Companies keep saying that they wish to port their apps to Linux but always keeps saying that Linux isn't big enough, but then at the same time if all of these apps were on Linux it will skyrocket Linux Growth. A lot of the times it feels like just them making excuses or are just waiting for somebody else to take the leap. An example of a Company that does this is Epic games with Fortnite.

My teacher used Linux, the laptop was so slow when it ran Windows 10, but she booted Linux and it ran so smoothly, it became usable for work.

Valve realized that it would be better to have a machine optimized for gaming rather than having something optimized for compatibility.

To me, the primary reason why Windows is on most PCs is because they got their foot in the door with OEMs to make sure their OS was installed on computers that were sold to the public. They practically have a monopoly on it, so of course it's on most computers.

we used linux at school because my teacher really liked it

How? Well, finish up the whole stack of GNU + Linux + system-d + Mesa + Pipewire + Wayland + Portals + KDE/GNOME + Flatpak/Snaps so that people can use it as easily as they can Windows and Android. Then, we just need time until Microsoft mess up enough time until we got to the point where there's enough users that application developers and manufacturers sees value in supporting us. We need that strong base and then we need to hit critical mass with Microsoft's help.

If linux is going to become popular with the average user then it absolutely needs to be possible/easy to do 100% of daily tasks without ever going into the terminal.

2:55 I know why they dropped it, Sony said "Due to security concerns" since players could modify how the PS3 could work online from Linux with GeoHots Root key that got him into legal water and is no longer allowed to own any Sony device ever again. It allowed for self-signing of executables. So anything would be able to run without needing a "jailbreak". He even has a website that shames Sony for suing him that's still up.

If Sony wants to make the PS5 into a desktop PC they might as well use FreeBSD since the PS5, PS4 and PS3 all use FreeBSD

Only 2 things: job and gaming. I don't want to do hacking to make things work. I want to install and don't think about it.

Realistically, Linux only needs four things: 1. **Core OS:** The main backbone of the OS. If you want to change the layout, the graphics style, the plugins, etc., you're welcome to do it. 2. **Core App Store:** This is where all apps go and where you download all apps. You can choose the style of app-flatpack, instant install pack, or whatever. 3. **A very good advertisement.** 4. **Decent user privilege system:** Plug and play. Click, click, click. No command line required. With a root OS and a root store, anyone would be able to use Linux. From there, if you want to do a distro edit, go right ahead. You want to put in a different store? Go ahead! You want to go back to the command line and change everything? Go ahead. But the root OS and the root store have to be standardized. Every single OS has to fundamentally flow through the core, which must be easy to install and easy to navigate by default. If you can navigate like Windows and buy applications like Android, Linux could actually take a dominant path. At most, you would have a system that boots up and asks what style you want: gaming, editing, surfing, business, security. And you'd get the appropriate system with no need to figure out distros. As for your Windows computer, it's not useless in 2025. If it still does the job, it works. If you can still run the game, it works. If you can still run the program, it works. If you can still surf the web, it definitely works. So stop fear mongering.

Thanks for discussing this topic! I'm a long time Linux user and I like when creators outside the Linux world discuss how Linux could succeed... this feels like a lot of people are rooting for Linux to succeed, even people who are not Linux users... and this makes me happy

The problem is there are major Linux organizations, the problem is the vast majority of them are focused on enterprise and servers. The Linux desktop simply isnt profitable so why would anyone advertise it?

He feels like a Linux enthusiast rather than a VPN company yt channel

Linux will become popular when installing and uninstalling software cleanly without breaking the whole operating system necessitating a reinstallation of the OS, becomes easy. When a "daily update" fails half-way leaving thousands of unfinished odds-and-ends for the user to figure out how to clean up to attempt another install cleanly (and successfully) stops being a common problem, and becomes an uncommon problem. When the dependency-hell problem across distros is solved. Most importantly, when graphics drivers support ALL GPU hardware features and WORKS and WELL, not just "can/might work, with this version, that version, must use old release for support/can't use newest release, downgrade kernel, downgrade python, COMPILE IT YOURSELF!?", etc. Most notably, right now OpenCL isn't there yet, and ROCm is only for the very very few. etc. Linux just isn't usable as a "Desktop" unless you're very advanced and have lots of patience. Even if all you do is watch youtube, if you don't install advanced features of the Mesa drivers, you don't get hardware decoding on your HD videos; that means that KZfaq is laggy if you're not technically capable of using the advanced driver installations. On Windows, it's just "next next next finish" and if it fails you just click the install file again, and usually it fixes it for you; they include their own uninstaller, and you have a system uninstaller; it uninstalls it "cleanly". Linux doesn't do that. On Linux, each distro has a ton of different ways to install the same application/driver, and between distros it's even more absurd, and frankly, there's too many choices; you almost always feel like you installed something suboptimal, or suboptimally. A "properly configured" linux is great. But it takes way too much effort to get it there for the average user.

Schools mostly use Chromebooks now & they run ChromeOS which is based on Linux so yes schools do use Linux

A lot of basic stuff is still difficult or impossible to do in Linux. Want to undervolt GPU? Windows: just adjust sliders in MSI Afterburner. In Linux: tinker with command line apps, parameters, config files and scripts. Linux apps need more GUI.

Our computer engineering classes have GNU/Linux as part of the course (at least they did in our highschool) because of the fact that many people who took the course (myself included) would be going into a field in IT. They also allowed students (myself included) to run GNU/Linux on their own personal devices and would tailor software that works on all three big platforms.

One of my IT teachers somehow was allowed to have a full computer lab running Linux in high school. Can still remember playing Kolf with others in morning home group.

Don't make Linux popular, or it would be hard if everyone flex their arch build and have to migrate to FreeBSD for elitism purposes😂

Turn it into windows, no seriously if you want it to be adopted massivly then you have to make it work like windows, seamless, plug & play and easily understood by an end user, remember end users are pretty fucking dumb i would know i am one

Actually all the distros remind me of android. There's Pixel UI, One Ui, HyperOs, ColorOs, and stock. What if treat pcs the same way? Dell runs Ubuntu, HP runs Mint, Asus runs Arch, and Windows can just make their own hardware(which they already do). New companies can even make pre-installed Linux pcs with their own skins similar to Android.

The main reason I cant use linux is the unavailability of apps that I use in windows, if those apps come to windows tomorrow I will switch to linux immediately

Here in Germany my school used Linux Mint until the city came to the school and forced it to use Windows 10. Downgrade in programming experience for that class.

Honestly, i would have switched to linux if it was more gui oriented, and had a quality of life improvements of at least windows 10. But as it currently stands, at the first problem you'll encounter - you'll be sent straight to the terminal. And the only desktop environment that even comes close to level of polish of windows 10 still has a long way to go. But you know, it doesn't have to be. Just look at Android, it looks nice, works fast, easy to use and does not require terminal witchcraft, has plenty of software and so on. There's definitely something to learn from it's success.

it really is just a matter of making the transition from Windows to Linux as seamless as possible. people just don't like change all that much.

In my school on Linux it has been used for a long time. Btw I am from India. They use Ubuntu and mint

I used to format and setup computers, and I always installed windows. Now I mostly install Linux Mint. It's just easier and it works for years without problems. Most people just use the browser for everything.

I've switched to Linux recently. The only thing I dislike is that I pretty often bump into compatability issues or errors which I have to fix through terminal with weird commands which I have to search up on random forums. My distro isn't that popular and pretty weird in it's own way which makes it harder to apply general solutions which are meant for Debian/Ubuntu users

My least favourite thing about linux is it doesn't let me mod proton games. I drag mods into a mod folder and it's not recognized because apparently it has a shitty case-sensitive file system so it just ignores it.

Linux is used in computer class India Kerala state it's called KITE GNU Linux based on Ubuntu 20.04

I honestly think making a Taskbar Search bar on the desktop that says "Search Programs", you type in a program, it showed you a very brief picture/description of the program you typed in, even better an option for one click install, and you click enter and installs it. No terminal, no store, if it suggests a Windows program, give the user an alt or a way to run said program "wine" and install wine/use.

There are a bunch of car manufacturers, there are even more car models. Nobody is complaining about "car fragmentation".

What linux needs is an installation wizard that does all the tinkering necessary to make things work. Installing linux, and every program, distro, package manager, etc, for linux should be no harder than using ninite. If you did that, linux would double in market share over night.

Linux support on PS3 was dropped because it was used to jailbreak the console, and Sony didn't like that.

Back when I was in university from 2006-2011, they used windows for the standard pcs, and a linux super mainframe that had dummy terminals, so we were able to SSH in as well, and work revolved around them.

The problem with linux for many people is that you usually can't just put an installer for a program on usb and install it on other machine without internet. Snaps or appimages? They don't run on every distro and have their drawbacks Flatpacks? They are pretty universal. But average user can't make use of them being universal. Also dependencies? Package manager or deb files? Good luck with dependencies. So on my opinion as an average user who learned how to use linux and uses it now, the main problem - is the way software is installed. You heavily depend on internet to solve all dependencies or you must know well what depends on what libs or you must carry the whole freaking repository on your drive (and even then it's not 1 click install). And yes, I do know all the way to solve it but it is still inconvenient for average user. Otherwise linux would be (and still is) a great solution for "install it and all needed software on granny's PC so she could browse internet, videos, photos, office and use video chat, and then forget about it. Granny wouldn't be able to even tell a difference". Problems arise when said granny or you need to install something on her pc from a usb drive or without the internet

i studied CS at Texas A&M, and while the lab computers did run windows we were often required to ssh into Linux to compile and run our programs i don't think i ever saw a Linux DE in my time there

I have a Steam Deck and I ordered a Linux tablet, in the past, I put Linux Mint on a usb thumb drive and booted my laptop into it that way, it prolonged the life of that laptop a little

Some of my school's computers dual boot windows 10 and ubuntu, but we have only used ubuntu once in 2 years and we do all the stuff we do in windows

There are a few things that annoys me on Linux when compared to Windows. Portable apps is one of those. With Windows, i can just copy the exe on a thumb drive and execute and even when some dependence is missing (most of time, it's just a DLL), i can just copy to the folder of the executable and it will run. On Linux, I couldn't figure out a way to do that and it must be a "download executable & run" solution, otherwise Windows is still ahead. There is also hardware compatibility, like backlight keyboards, fan control and power control for laptops, which ... Isn't straight forward and takes a lot of extra time to deploy. Abd even the solutions I got are subpar, like the keyboard backlight returning to a default after reboot instead of remembering what was the last state. Gaming on Linux is getting better, but it is still lagging behind. Even retro gaming still require more steps to run on Linux. VM is a possible solution I'm certain cases, but it is still not something the end user will be doing. Aside from those annoyances, I noticed that Linux Mint is a great option to ressuct older machines and even something running a mobile T8100 duo core with 4GB DDR2 memory will go from stuck in useless Vista to fully operational web browsing. Another thing I've been doing is to slowly build a new software library and workflow that is compatible with Linux, so I can ditch Windows, but I'm still stuck with Windows fir gaming with my friends, who will be playing stuck from Microsoft store like MS Flight Simulator. I guess ill be only free from Windows once someone manage to sneak MS store/XBOX into Linux.

I feel like if there was a commercial incentive to support Linux (such as Valve with the Steam Deck), Linux would be on par in terms of hardware/software support when it comes to Windows within a year or two. Currently there's little to no incentive for big companies to support Linux since it's not worth it commercially.

My university (about ten years ago) had a dedicated computer science lab running openSUSE. It was mostly set up for use as a thin client to a Windows VM, but you could also use it as-is.

Well, I mean, ChromeOS, which is based off Gentoo Linux, is widely used in schools, so that's one thing that could have gotten Linux to its 4% market share level. 🤷🏻‍♂️

5:23 I remember when I was in my primary school, we had a computer lab that had 10-12 PCs, and they were all running on Ubuntu Unity (I don't remember which version, but it had things like typing games and all study-related stuff). The most important thing is that I'm from a little village in Gujarat, which is located in India, and the funny thing is that even teachers don't know how to use it 🤣😅. btw right now I'm using Fedora.

my school used linux in two computer labs but only for students that chose to study IT not electronics or automatic systems

We had eMac in elementary school, as time went on it was switched to iMacs. When I was in High School we all used iPads for school work, research, lectures, textbooks and tests. My media and creation classes used Mac Pros...

The recent updates kinda makes people give Linux a try

can we just acknowledge that that 4% number is most likely too small than the actual number? yk due to ppl refusing to let websites grab data like this?

I think personally biggest thing is app delivery. Even if Linux community hates consolidation. There NEEDS to be one exccelent cross distro app format, store/repository, along with all tools needed to develop software for that format and publish/sell it.

i need to buy a new ssd bcause mt laptop is so slow but i dont want to send it to a repair shop or buy a copy of windows because i have ubuntu 4 disc should i do that or should i copy the files from my old hdd?

Everyone make Linux more popular!!!

Windows user since Windows 3.1. 1)Ease of use. You can get guidance from everywhere, your friends, neighbors, any computer shop/ store you enter. 2) Mostly all business houses use Microsoft Office, professional accounting software only runs on Windows. People prefer to learn Windows & other industry standard software to earn money. 3) Easy to use GUI tools for anything you want to do. Linux people should stop call Windows users as dumb, lazy loaths etc. They are doctors, engineers, accountants etc, expert in their fields. Not knowing any certain things about computer is not a problem. Linux people should focus on GUI tools. Everybody is not expert in computer programming to understand command line. Most people are only app users. If everything can be done on Android & Chrome OS using GUI, both base on Linux kernel, why couldn't it be done on Linux? They should forget about nostalgia about CLI.

I have vivid memories of us using some sort of linux os during our CS-classes in elementary school (circa 2007-2010). I think it was to get students familiar with basic computing other than windows. This was in Finland btw.

I have many of those problems. I'm a long time(like half my life) windows user, I'd even call myself a power-user. I've spent years tweaking and customizing and learning all the ins and outs of windows, so Linux is a very hard adjustment to make, the power-user software I use to heavily tweak the windows interface or mod games or cheat (single player games only, not an a-hole who cheats against other people) just doesn't work on Linux. By all means the regular day to day stuff works perfectly fine as like you said browsers are pretty much universal across all platforms, but most of the more advanced tweaks, basically all the things that aren't common use-cases require either so much more work to get working on linux or I just plain can't as far as I've figure out without basically coding/scripting it myself. Basically the learning curve for advanced usage is almost exponentially sharper. I've also run in many of the situations where I was banging my head against the wall /trying/ to get something to work and being denied with every attempt to the point where I was just throwing everything I could find at the problem and hoping I didn't foul things up even further. Usually having to scour through google results to find the magic sudo commands to fix the issue while still not entirely understanding what the issue was. Generally I think it was the permissions or firewall or something else that just made things silently fail. Oh and having to enter my passwords a few dozen/hundred times. And then there were the handful of times my attempts to fix things ended up breaking the whole installation with me having no idea how to undo it and I foolishly didn't make a timeshift backup so had to reinstall several times. I might've been up to the challenge when I was younger and had free time and enthusiasm/energy, but at my current stage of life and burn out from my job I just can't tackle linux, it's too big of an adjustment and there's too much I'd have to either give up or have to relearn to do from scratch. Believe me if there's anything that makes me want to get into Linux it's all this business with Windows 11, but I just don't have it in me to take on the challenge. I even bought a mini pc to have a powerful modern system to try out linux on, but I've barely used it.

Hardware is one of the reason I switched from Linux. Another reason I switched is because of MS Office and Discord.

I was trying to use linux but i changed my mind after i found that installing nvidia driver is: first: strange and confusing way to do to me (linux should have an executable file to run and that's it) second: screwed up my display settings after installing some things that i assumed they were the ones to install. My point is: The day linux make installations in windows way (just double clic and voila) then i will go for it forever. Thanks for the video.

i think it's safe to say i grew up having used ubuntu on a computer lab in my elementary school back then, and that brought me to the rabbit hole

After installing Linux Mint on my second drive a few days ago, I found out that Steam (which runs on Linux) has a wrapper, based on Wine, which lets it run all my Steam Library Windows games. This is incredible. The only feature the wrapper didn't support was PhysX on "Borderlands 2." (ghosted out). I wish I had known about this years ago.

Windows 12 subscribtion with ads will send more people toward Linux.

My school used Linux servers, Linux pc, Linux phones and also steam deck is with every student

Lots of schools used Mac around 2012, but then switched to Chromebooks. Windows is used if there is a specific software needed.

I think the one distro would need the simplicity of Ubuntu and the customizability of OpenSUSE or Arch.

I use Windows because I do.

The real reason why people that use linux go back to windows : VIrtual machine does not run native like Vmware and bluestacks to play android apps with Open CL and DX interface , ALL DX games do not work with linux native, all aplications alternatives suck compared whats available on windows, No true Drivers native suport like chipset and gpu drivers and also professional audio codecs and the last one to many "Distos"

My high school used Windows 3.0, then when I was studying computers at 16 it was windows 3.11. I actually persuaded them to pay me to install Linux in one lab but they never got around to starting lessons on it. When I moved on to computer science at university they were still using Unix on Sun workstations in some places but most of the other departments were on Windows PCs.

My primary school had a coding club where we used raspberry pis and python. They even gave me a Raspberry Pi 1 to keep

The only thing that keeps me from daily driving Linux is the lack of support for my music workflow. Lots of people have zero problems with it, and that’s great. But for me, Windows VSTs and DAWs are extremely hard to replace and don’t work flawlessly on Wine. Not to mention I’d have to ditch all my existing projects or dual-boot which is just more trouble than it’s worth. I even mainly got into LMDE for a month, but eventually had to concede that for my daily use it isn’t worth only partially switching to an OS that, as you mentioned, doesn’t operate that differently in most people’s daily desktop use.

I remember last 2006 when I was in 4th grade, our computers run KDE if I'm not mistaken, and the browser was Konqueror. Then the next year, it was updated to Ubuntu. That was the first time I experienced Linux OS since our home computer was running Windows XP.

The removal of the "Other OS" feature from the PlayStation 3 stemmed from security concerns. Initially, the PS3 allowed users to install alternative operating systems like Linux alongside the native XMB. However, this feature was exploited by some users to run unauthorized code, potentially compromising the system's security. As a result, Sony decided to remove the "Other OS" functionality through a firmware update..

Dude what mouse do you use and where can I buy it!

I have been a Linux user since 2019. I started with a pi 4. Now I built my current desktop and use zorin. I use zorin on my laptop as well. I will never switch back to windows. I see what is going on with windows 11 and it makes me even happier I am a linux user. I think the more Microsoft nickel and dimes their customers, the bigger Linux user base will get.

did they fixed the linux app store? it was slow as hell when I use it. I will switch if I can play game without copy the command from internet. windows seem fine for me at least for my pc :)

About the question why I still use Windows on my main PC: I play a lot of small games and stuff that don't have linux support, probably 40% of what I play is on Windows only. Wine works sometimes, but it is also way slower than just running it natively. The only downside to Windows is that there are some programs either only available for Linux or witt very buggy Windows versions. However, for those, that windows subsystem for Linux thing works really well

I do have a Linux Mint PC here at home as a play thing but for me to go 24/7 Linux Microsloth would have to port Office 365 to Linux as I use Outlook on multiple accounts with Exchange Sever .support. I did hear a rumor that Thunderbird was going to have native exchange sever Support rather than having to pay a 3rd party for it which doesn't work 100% especially contact lists. . I have considered installing Mint as my main OS and using a VM with Win 11 just for Office.

I think the best way to tackle it is making a Linux for beginner. Basically, it would be a collaborative effort between possibly multiple distributions. Making their transition smoother like adding in a cheat sheet when you open up the terminal. That'll update depending on what you're typing and even Auto-Fill the top option for you. Like Minecraft Command System. Ease of dual booting. Like it just does it for you. If you don't uncheck the box. Automatic backups so the user can easily revert if they make a mistake. Basically have a lot of the operating system to stuff automatically like Windows. Once they're in, they can slowly transition to the other OSes based on what they need to be. Most users might not even switch off of it since just most users use basic web browsing.

My school used a Customised GNU-Linux OS, which made the Linux first operating system that I used in PC.

From a perspective of a Windows Super User, I will say this, nothing that you said on this video matters to me, but when I open the contraparte Explorer on Linux and I see, Var, Etc, Bin, etc... The first thing that came to my mind is, I am not a Programmer, this isn't friendly, I am out of here. When a God Programmer with a help on an Super AI has the bravery to Rename all the main folders on Linux I really think things will change.

I just jumped into linux from windows, one of the minor things i found somewhat disruptive to my workflow is data management, i kinda miss the alt up to enter "this pc" to select drives. and the way the folders are organized for the os is getting used to xd. that probably is my only downside. the rest i'm getting used to now running mint, debian and arch, running linux now for about a week and don't plan on going back

multiple distros are the best option,reason 1 is that you can choose how advanced you want to be or just as simple you want it, reason 2 you can customize it and learn more about linux and the world of computer operating systems, reason 3 you can use as many distros that fits your system, like a 15 year old laptop would probably have puppy linux on it because of hardware being underpowerd. but 1 distro yould also be good as you can advertise it and get more attention, also be able to get app devs to push it to linux without having to port it or create it from scratch again on another distro. i personaly think multiple distros is the best option as you get to choose the distro you think suites best for you.

I switched 2 years ago to Linux. Had for several years a dual-boot setup and tried out OpenSUSE, Fedora, Linux Mint and Kubuntu. It took until 2020~ to get the Linux desktop to a state, that is comparable, maybe even equal to Windows. The improvements came thanks to various things (DXVK, AMDGPU, Lutris, Valve, KDE, etc.) and because of MSs' decisions, I ditched Windows and to everything on Linux, even game.

As a longtime user of Linux, I believe Immutable distros are the future for everyday normal people. SteamOS is a good example, I've also switched my desktop over to Bazzite which is an immutable Fedora based distro. Flatpaks solve the issue of fragmentation, which distro to target when developing apps, and dependency issues. When Valve releases SteamOS as a general purpose distro I believe that will be the "default" linux distro for people to use.

I use Zorin OS education edition of Linux which is based on Ubuntu and has Windows app support to some extent

We DON'T want linux to be popular. Do we want to be terrified at Linux like we already are will Windows?

1, games 2, google drive 3, word 4,can accces any program

How? You talk about it positively and provide accurate information.

whats the site name in 6:22

I'm pretty much agree with the "pick one distro as Linux default" and personally I think Linux Mint should take that crown, since I use it personally and because I hear of the least amount of headaches from new users who go with Mint over other distros.

I want to migrate, but as far I can tell NTFS support in the kernel has been removed. I don't want to figure out an add-on, reconfiguration , etc. Does any distro have native support for NTFS?

I installed Ubuntu Linux in two computers and both have problems. laptop has audio crashing problem and my desktop can't run wifi. I spent days to fix these problems and no success.

I think one of the main issue is really just the many distros it has. Like it makes the choice a tad bit harder. Like sure it was said that windows users should just start out on Mint and say stuffs like "you can jump to another distro later" but damn it, we are windows users, we are used to stick to one OS to as long as we want. And that can get confusing or demotivating for most users. I'm currently stuck choosing between endeavourOS and Mint. There was also pop os but i heard that one can break on its own from time to time. There was also another fedora based distro that was gaming focused but i forgot it's name.

In both my high school and technical school, they used Linux. I live in Brazil, and I think this might have been specific to my town and region. I'm not sure if kids in other places had the same experience as me, since Brazil is huge. In my high school and primary school, they used a Ubuntu-based OS with KDE. However, at my technical school, which I attended during high school, they used Ubuntu. I think the first version I used was Ubuntu 8.04, with Gnome, before the release of Unity.

Im an ubuntu user 24.04 is amazing. The new tiling assistant is just 😄

Linux is advertised just because it's not Windows, not because it's functionally better than Windows. If I simply disable the telemetry and remove the bloatware from Windows, Linux suddenly has no reason to be considered by me.

For hardware companies to truly adopt Linux, there needs to not just be a "Halo Distro", but a well polished mainstream distribution that most users won't have to mess around and have enough software support. PopOS and Mint is kind of there, but still needs a lot more work and optimization. The average person who uses Linux today isn't fazed (if not most prefer) using the terminal, but the average Joe will be too intimidated thanks to how refined Windows and MacOS has become over the decades. Looking at the software support, there needs to be BETTER alternatives to stuff like Office and Photoshop. Being just equivalent or "just about there", that won't cut it. You can't expect the average person to troubleshoot wonky drivers or come up with janky solution to make PDF documents for work. There needs to be more fleshed out software like Blender, not messes like GIMP. There's no reason to choose OnlyOffice other then it being a substitute for Office 365 (and being free), software like that needs to innovate and convince people to use it over the established option.