[ProgressingAmerica]

It is good that people are leaving big tech, it is sad that it is happening despite go woke go broke and not because of go woke go broke.

[kinsman redeemer]

Maybe add the end of W10 support?

[Mean Daddy]

If more users move to Linux, the hackers will follow.

[Red6]

Linux is available for free.

Linux is far more stable.

Linux is more secure.

[MikelTackNailer]

I think this is a combination of Linux becoming more user-friendly and users tired of Microsoft shaking cash out of them while holding them upside down (their virtual blackmail crap).

[Red6]

I think it was the rise of the smart phone (many using Android i.e. Linux) which also helped create an inevitable toppling of Windows as the OS monopoly.

For a small group, it was also security, since MS readily cooperates with the US government. This is a smaller group because most Americans today just go along with anything they are told. Most people are compliant and want no trouble they just want to fit in. Most people today accept the broad government and corporate intrusion in their private sphere. It’s become normal, acceptable.

It’s a known fact that MS gives the US government IC the keys to the back-doors on everything:

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-23285642

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna52454247

https://www.nbcnews.com/technolog/microsoft-let-nsa-bypass-encryption-mail-chats-cloud-storage-says-6C10607490

When you use Windows, you’re basically using an OS that is Swiss cheese regards safe guarding your privacy from the US IC.

[ShadowAce]

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I have used Linux in the past, and have it on the laptop I have connected to our TV.

Just started playing with it on a Windows 11 Hyper-V virtual machine. That way I can have both worlds without dual-booting.

I learned that there are two types of virtual machines, #1 and #2. #1 runs directly on the hardware, #2 runs a software emulator, which is much slower.

Hyper-V is type #1, and Linux runs just as fast there as when I dual-boot.

Hyper-V comes with three Ubuntu virtual machines; 20, 21 and 22, and they just work. Haven’t figured out how to get Linux Mint working yet. Mint is my preference.

Now that I have Ubuntu in a VM I can play with it more.

[Paal Gulli]

Actually, I shouldn't give Torvalds all the credit. Linux might still actually be nothing but a a niche product if not for Richard Stallman's GNU Project. Because all Torvalds created was a reverse-engineered UNIX kernel. The GNU Project -- which Stallman had up and running before Torvalds created his kernel -- provided the applications that made the kernel useful even to people who can't code.

[9YearLurker]

I’m getting ready to spin at least one laptop up with it.

[Justa]

I’ll add - having Software as a service ...to the company.