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People aren't going to do that. They'll switch to Apple. Linux doesn't have the presence in public consciousness nor does it have the benefits for average users to matter to them. Tech users don't need to be converted, they already know.
Maybe in the West where people can afford Macs.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/934972/india-linux-share-in-desktop-os-market/
Your point is only valid for paid statistica subscribers, apparently. The rest of us have no idea what point you're trying to make.
Right below the unlabeled graph is this very relevant text :
Thank you for that. I always navigate away as soon as I see a paywall because that usually indicates that the entire page will be a complete waste of my time.
That's first time that I've seen useful information below a paywall button.
Though to be fair, even this might be progress, of a sort; years ago, I had a girlfriend who had a bunch of apple products, partly because she worked in sound design. At the time, I had never used Linux and I found using her Mac distinctly unfamiliar. When I eventually tried Linux, some years later, I remember a few instances of going "oh, it's like on a Mac".
Those similarities made the whole thing feel a tad less intimidating and probably contributed to (or at least accelerated) me becoming the tech nerd I am today.
Depends on what the public wants. Apple kills backwards compatibility every couple of decades and they have an even more minute gaming presence than Linux does. Like,
, their most popular title, even as a company deathly afraid of the Windows monopoly.
You could make arguments for consoles and such, but that doesn't solve the problem of Macs being particularly costly.