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by nextos 553 days ago
Local momentum I guess. Lots of non-tech SMEs in the UK use Ubuntu since the 2010s.

Another factor is Office interop, especially Excel. Office 365 has simplified that, but it's still far from perfect.

Personally, I think non-tech SMEs are still not aware of the major advantage offered by Linux, declarative state-less configuration à la NixOS.

A friendly Ubuntu-like distro grounded on NixOS ideas that lowered the barrier of entry would be really interesting.