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Your hypothetical user could throw a dart at a list of distros and just install the one it hits.
but how does one ensure that their dart lands in the same spot as their employer's and their mom's? consistency is very important for the average user, at odds with us enthusiasts' joy at being able to change anything.
I am not against linux, (I use arch btw) but I accept the fact that most people don't find computers as exciting as I do.
Their employer is probably using Windows because they're locked in so that's a red herring. Their mom, if not using Windows for similar reasons, is probably using some variant of Ubuntu.
it's a hypothetical scenario. And you still failed to even acknowledge my point, let alone get it.
What is your point? That you're more enlightened than us plebs or something?
you keep saying that the average user can do this or that. when the point isn't whether they could, but whether they want to. The average user does not want to choose. Look up the paradox of choice.
It's hard for a system to become mainstream when techy people keep boasting to them that its biggest feature is the one they specifically do not want
Maybe that's just another feature. Eternal September sucks, as evidence by this very interaction.