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I want to switch to Linux but there are a few major hurdles.
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The issue is that most users aside from nerds, programmers and other professionally very tech involved people don’t care about their operating system, or how much it spies on them. They want it to work without much thought, everything else is a secondary concern.
And this crowd is tough to capture for Linux, because if there is one thing that defines Linux it is the fact that you have to put in some effort to make everything work, especially with not supported applications like most games.
Not even developers. I know plenty of developers that use M1 MacBooks as a comfortable middle ground between Windows and Linux with excellent battery life, software compatibility cough Adobe, and an aight Unix environment. Many also prefer MacBooks cause they don't want to deal with Windows problems and hacking Linux, since they already troubleshoot technical problems for a living.
I'm actually almost the only one in my dev social circle that uses Linux and dual boots Windows for compatibility reasons, everyone else sticks to Apple.