Comment by Shorel
2 years ago
I think the two factors leading to this are:
- Covid, and the quarantine, forcing people to buy new computers to use at home, and giving them the freedom to choose operating system, in contrast to work computers.
- Steam, giving people an easy way to play many games on Linux.
And Microsoft's endless struggle to alienate long time users who'd be willing to put up with a lot in exchange for being allowed to keep old UI habits. In combination with large parts of steam libraries just working, it's almost a perfect storm.
It was Microsoft's nerfing of the "Pro" Windows editions that did it for my business. We're small but we still need control of our own systems to operate professionally - just like the bigger organisations whose IT teams would never accept Microsoft forcing things like updates, reboots, and telemetry on their users. Since around Windows 10 it seems like Pro is just Home with a couple of minor concessions but still 99% of the junk we won't tolerate so we're now almost exclusively Linux and haven't bought a new Windows machine in a long time.