Most businesses have Windows apps that are used all day every day
You're mistaken.
I'm absolutely not, and arguing the point is hilarious.
You're really trying to say that millions of businesses, employing billions of people, in thousands of industries ,are "totally just using browsers, bro."
Come the fuck on.
The vast majority of people interact with workstations every day? I don't think the vast majority of people have office jobs on earth, but I won't belabor the point.
Those people that use a computer at work are using windows, or in rare cases, macs. Linux is almost non existent because the work ecosystem isn't there, and likely wont be there because of office suites and other tooling.
No one uses Office applications on their local machines anymore.
Hilarious. Guess I'll let the thousands of people I work with who I know use Office via an app know they dont exist.
Matter of fact, a large majority of all work is done in the browser. Computers have, for a long time, been glorified Facebook machines. Look at how many people use Chrome OS that doesn't even support any local software at all...
Yeah to facebook machines, which is why most people don't have PCs anymore when phones will do. The above doesnt apply to buisnesses, and im honestly baffled that you think it does.
Most businesses have Windows apps that are used all day every day, generally numbering in the hundreds or thousands depending on the scope of the enterprise.
Since they will stick on Windows because of this, and there are no more home pcs out there outside the gamer/nerds/granniss, the rapid Linux gain will drop off again, and that's okay. The Linux eco system is vibrant, accessible and interesting. That's enough.
Workstations are used at work, which is the main gist of my comment above.
Linux has picked up the low hanging fruit, i.e nerds and gamers who have actual computers at home. It wont win over some mythical "everyday home computer user" because they dont exist anymore.
For Linux to truly "snowball," it needs a serious, fully seemless office replacement that has to be better than "odt by default" libreoffice. Until it can pick off the office clients, it will not win.
Still, it doesn't need to. Pick up that nerd/gamer/granny dont care how she gets to chrome subset. That's fantastic for linux, and will still drive innovation enough.
That isn't Windows only advantage. It is "easier" to use in the sense that it has less choices, especially if you have been using it in business for decades. You know it well enough to get around, with no concerns about different app names/icons/etc. Im not talking about chrome ot adobe either, im talking "what is the folder program called and why does it look like that" problems.
Most people give no shits about computers. They use what they know, if they use it at all. It's why "phones and the occasional tablet" are by far the majority of most people's home computers now.
Linux wont win until it wins offices. That will be where the snowball starts. The greay thing though is linix doesnt need to "win." It can just be excellent and continue to be a much needed check on capitalism's race to constrain our freedoms by enshittifing everything they can for profit.
Sure dude. The above is why desktop Linux already dominates the businesses world. Everything is cloud based, which is why Linux desktop share is at 99% across all businesses, and not 6% across portable gaming consoles and nerd's home PCs.
It's not worth arguing with you when you're making ridiculous assumptions and stating clear hyperbole.