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No they really aren't. Maybe for the average tech enthusiast consumer they are, but the large majority of their customers is actually huge businesses that completely rely on Windows and will absolutely upgrade to Win11. Besides that the average consumer is not informed enough, nor cares to be, to switch to anything else. They will either continue to run unsecured windows 10, or will upgrade to 11 when some guy at best buy explains they have to. Those of us who are savvy enough will switch to linux but for microsoft that is a drop in the bucket, not a major loss at all.
We don’t need this self defeatist attitude as it’s plain wrong. People are switching to Linux albeit glacially at the moment.
I switched to linux. I'm all for it and very much encourage people to do so. I'm loving the push for gaming support too, so I do hope there's progress there. But ignoring the install base of international corporations is just lying to yourself. Find a significant company that's going to switch all their business PCs to Linux because of Win11 and I will gladly eat my words.
While it’s good you personally use Linux, It would definitely help out the movement more if you were more verbally encouraging towards it.
We don’t need corporations to do the right thing we need the everyday people to do so to greatly increase the demand for Linux support.
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And while my social circle has that particular flavour, there are a lot of questions about essentially "android like my phone but on my desktop". It's not a great metaphor but people are realizing there's more than pricy macs and cheesy windows. And that's a great step.