[Vox_Leone]

I bow my head to the eternal Puppy Linux.

Not that I want to see the end of Microsoft like many do. In fact, I don't care. But it could be in real trouble if the masses suddenly became aware of simple, easy, and efficient software like Puppy -- which makes people's dependence on MS even more inexplicable.

[sam345]

The thing is, not everyone is an engineer so to normies it's not simple. easy or efficient. There's a reason why people like windows.

[graemep]

The major ease of use advantage Windows has is that it is preinstalled on hardware people buy. If you gave a "normie" a computer with desktop Linux distro preinstalled they would find it much easier to use it than to install Windows.

My experience is that most people like Linux provided someone else installs it for them.

[paulryanrogers]

Most software is also written for Windows and won't be flawless in WINE

[sickofparadox]

Most people use their computers just to browse the internet and maybe run a few electron applications.

[graemep]

That is a different issue from ease of use, and depends on what software you want to use. There is certainly a lot of software that is available for Linux.

I am far from sure how you would measure "most". Number of executables, number of GUI apps...?. These days there are probably more GUI apps for mobile platforms than for desktops in any case.

A lot of the most commonly used software (e.g. web browsers) is cross platform.

Of course there is a lot of niche software that is Windows specific, but a lot of that has or will move to web based SaaS (not a good thing in my view, BTW).

[paulryanrogers]

Most mainstream apps that normies are already familiar with

[gapan]

Ah, facebook then.