I don't really understand this one. When I want to use the internet on Ubuntu i click the internet picture. When I want to use a spreadsheet I click the spreadsheet picture. When I want to download non dev stuff I click the app store picture and then search for what I want.
I don't buy this argument that the average person can't use Ubuntu. It's easier to use than windows in a vast majority of ways without ever touching a command line.
Linux is great and so are most things Open Source. My company uses an Accounting/ERP System called Macola. That doesn't run on Linux. And I am not going to experiment with Wine when it comes to our ERP system. So what ERP system should I switch to that runs on Linux? I guess we could go cloud and use NetSuite. But I hate Oracle more than I hate Microsoft.
Not all software, especially in the office/at work is internet browsing and spreadsheets. It has nothing to do with easy, it's about, sometimes many decades worth, of software development and applications that don't run well on anything but Windows. I gave up trying to make everything work from my Linux box a long time ago and am happier because of it.
And, in the end, at home? I run OpenBSD because the most popular Linux distributions came along and forced me to use something called systemd and I don't care for it any more than I do Microsoft Edge.
And in no way am I arguing that what they are doing with Edge or Windows 11 is in anyway acceptable.
You're describing the happy path, where all your hardware works, and you only use basic software.
In practice stuff just tends to go wrong, fixing it is always complicated command line stuff, and that one bit of software you need only runs on Windows or Mac.
Linux is not a realistic alternative for most people.
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