Ease of use and low maintenance just means inertia. I remember back when people wrote Tech articles saying that Windows XP was intuitive as an argument against Linux but it turns out that intuitive only ever meant it works exactly like Windows xp. Then people got smartphones and using a second type of computer interface turned out to be no big deal. And now Linux market share is growing rapidly, something we were told was never going to happen because of all sorts of reasons that apparently don’t apply.
Almost all of Linux’s growth on the desktop is caused by Microsoft enshittifying Windows. There wouldn’t be measurable growth without that because it doesn’t matter how good it is without an incentive to leave Windows.
Ease of use and low maintenance just means inertia. I remember back when people wrote Tech articles saying that Windows XP was intuitive as an argument against Linux but it turns out that intuitive only ever meant it works exactly like Windows xp. Then people got smartphones and using a second type of computer interface turned out to be no big deal. And now Linux market share is growing rapidly, something we were told was never going to happen because of all sorts of reasons that apparently don’t apply.
Almost all of Linux’s growth on the desktop is caused by Microsoft enshittifying Windows. There wouldn’t be measurable growth without that because it doesn’t matter how good it is without an incentive to leave Windows.
I play on Gentoo, btw.