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Exactly, I don't see a reason either. If you like playing around with your OS, go for it. But most people are fine with Windows or already think Windows is to complex. So you might see a small percentage of gamers move over to Linux, but I don't think Microsoft has anything to fear as the video suggested. Most people (and this includes gamers) don't care about their OS. Even though they're smart enough to get everything working, most people will choose convenience over saving a 100 bucks every 4/5 years on a Windows license. However, this is what makes the PC such a wonderfull platform. You have the choice to run Linux if you want to

We could, yes, but we decided against it since we don't want any "special" servers with self-compiled kernels. We update these things centrally and manage them like a herd, not pets. But this discussion is kinda my point. Everything can and will work on Linux, no question about it. And when someone pays me to do it for 8 hours a day I will gladly do it, I like my job. But for my personal PC it's to much hassle, I only have about 2/3 hours of leisure time every day. Windows these days "just works" for gaming and desktop use. If a Linux distro ever wants to seriously compete with Windows it has to be just as good if not better. Anything less then the convenience that Windows gives and it's simply not good enough. Microsoft isn't sitting still either. Just a couple of years ago I had to install 7/8 different drivers on my PC after installing Windows, these days everything gets installed through Windows Update (except for my GPU driver). Linux is getting better but it still has a long way to go.

Sure, but it takes time for the drivers to show up in the backport repos. The example I gave was for a HBA in a brand new HPE DL380 Gen10, running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. It took almost six weeks for the HBA driver to show up in the HWE repository from Ubuntu. At that point the server had been collecting dust in the datacenter for about a month. With servers this isn't really an issue, it's just irritating and it might mess up deadlines. But it's a bit anticlimactic when your new 800 euro GPU is unsuable for a month after recieving it I really like Linux, but it's not perfect. For personal use it's still way to much work in my opinion.

I doubt Linux will ever become a mainstream desktop OS to be honest. At work I manage hundreds of Linux servers and it's amazing as a server OS. Every now and then I run Ubuntu on my work laptop but there are way to many edge cases where it just doen't work, usually with proprietary software. There is also the driver issue. In Linux the drivers are part of the kernel, which means that you have to wait for a new kernel release before the kernel supports brand new hardware. Even on servers this can be an issue, I've seen HBAs that run at 25MB/s max because the kernel has no driver for it yet. Very irritating when your 35k server is unusable for a couple of weeks after recieving it because the distro that your company uses doens't yet support the kernel that you need. The privacy angle isn't really a good reason either I think (at least for myself). Most people run Chrome on Linux, so then they are sending metrics to just Google instead of Microsoft + Google. Metrics are a part of tech these days. The data that's send to Microsoft isn't really that sensitive anyway, it's all very granular (see: https://mixer.com/WindowsInsider?vod=81529350). If anyone really cares about this stuff, dump your Android phone, Chrome, Gmail first. At the end of the day Linux is just to much work to run as a desktop OS, especially when you're using hardware that came to market in the past six months. Mind you, I'm just speaking for myself here. I do this crap for a living but I'm way to lazy to care about it home, no way I'm going to research Linux kernel changelogs to figure out if my new GPU is supported. If you're fine with that, more power to you