@shoq It's fine on the desktop, but people prefer convenience and (the illusion of) reliability being spied on to dealing with rough edges.

@dangillmor.I’m not arguing that it’s not perfectly useful. It has been for many years. But it takes more than that to climb above 2.5% market share. Especially when so many powerhouses are dedicated to keeping it small. I never understood why the Red Hat model couldn’t have been replicated in the consumer space. I still think it could be. One big product with serious dollars behind it could still change the game. But it has to have a driving motivation. Cloud culture makes that a challenge.

@shoq Microsoft makes it difficult for PC manufacturers to offer competitive options. And for most of the manufacturers, it just isn't worth the hassle to preload anything but Windows.

@dangillmor @shoq There's force of habit, too. I finally switched to desktop #Linux (Debian/GNOME) this week when I got fed up with all the stuff Microsoft was force feeding me, even though I have been using Server Linux for a decade (also, I was very irked at the indications they were sending all my clicks and urls and everything else into the great big maw of Bing AI). It was just easier to go with what was loaded on the PC, initially.