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Because humans are creatures of habit, and as long as stuff works for them, even suboptimally, a lot of people aren't inclined to change their habits, even if it might mean a change would improve their lives. As long as sth is "good enough", there simply isn't an incentive for change.
Also, since there isn't a huge corporation behind Linux, there is literally no direct advertisement for it, so people who aren't into tech simply never will get in touch with it.
The internet is run by Linux machines. Windows and Mac aren’t hosting that shit, Linux is. Even Microsoft uses Linux for that. France and Germany are switching over after seeing enormous cost savings. Gamers are flocking to it to make their old hardware less terrible to use and distros like bazzite are making it easy. AI data centers are all running on Linux. Not a single one runs windows 11 or windows server, at least not bare metal.
Windows is most common as an endpoint device that’s not very important and does comparatively little work. It’s a terminal UI at this point.
Everybody is using it. Literally nothing you use your windows box for would run with out it. Take a seat.
Click the little dots people, hit block, carry on.
Android is Linux.. did you know that?
While Linux isn't the most used system on desktops, it's easily the most used OS overall..
Try trolling more subtly in the future.