I was wondering how it would be able to tell what keyboard someone is using like I switch between Dvorak and Qwerty all the time ( I can only type properly in Dvorak though ).

Same it's different, but it's not a bad different. And it's not on the level of reddit where they basically strong armed third-party with cost to quit them from making apps.

I'm blinded by the hype train, but with 2 kids and sole income my wallets to empty to pay for an 80$ game on release.

If you like the automation in that pack and want a game similar you should try factorio. A more friendly introduction to the genre would be shapez.io.

Knowing a few people running lubuntu doesn't make it an average. That is just a personal bias.

From experience almost all the computers I serviced over the last few years were either bought at Walmart, Best buy or Amazon that could also be a bias, but it spans over multiple cities with a good hundred clients The only time I started to see computers that were consistently bought from the manufacturer is in a business environment. But the specific one I'm in doesn't support Linux at all within production.

Ah I just checked there used to be a loophole by going through a disability program or using an alternative authentication method provided by Microsoft that would activate the 10 license after the update. Looks like it was patched in September 2023 though.

The average consumer either doesn't go to the manufacturer site or doesn't care enough to look into alternatives. They want something that gets their school/work done.

As some in the IT field who regularly deals with people that have a 4+ year degree and then tell me they are "tech illiterate" is astounding.

In the past they were hand held so much that the previous techs had a password book of everyone's password for multiple applications.

Luckily with a lot of pushback from our current members about how insecure and dangerous that is that has changed, but we still have users even after 3 years since the change message us through a depreciated system asking for their password.

Correct, but that's cost is only if you buy windows 11 for a machine that has never had windows on it,

11 is free for any windows user that has 10. It also comes pre installed on most PCs you buy and very rarely is that cost of the license noted on the device your buying (unless you use the customize settings on an online store)

I'm also pretty sure there are still ways to upgrade to 10 from 7 and 8. Windows did this to make it harder for people to switch to a different OS because most people remember when they had to "pay" to upgrade to the latest version.

The key word in this post is uniquely popular. This is most likely cherry picked data.