@swelljoe which "normal" person out there has ever installed Windows though? You are talking about yourself, but want everyone else to do the same as if it's a common thing and everyone else just refuses to be smart. Have your parents ever installed windows? Your neighbours? Your mail person? Pizza deliverer? Waiter? When you ask why people not just use Linux, you're not talking about people like yourself, you're talking about THEM. And that's just not gonna happen until it's made a LOT easier.
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Honestly can't figure out why everyone isn't using Linux at this point.@swelljoe 90% of non-tech people have never heard of Linux. I am a non-tech person and only braved Linux because I learned a bit more since I'm here on Masto. It was a lot of work/ research to find halfway decent tutorials made for clueless people like me. 95% of them used words I had never heard of and had no idea what they meant. I tried to install Linux (Ubuntu) last weekend (because my drawing tablet only works with Ubuntu). I did everything as I was supposed to do. It did not work. I have no idea what I did wrong without an idea how to fix whatever went wrong and searching online did not magically turn up solutions. THAT'S why not everyone uses Linux. It was and is a tech nerd thing unusuable for those who aren't learning it for years.