Because windows and OSX both hold your hand and shield you from your computer, and using Linux requires marginally more than 0 knowledge which puts off everyone that isn't at least a little good at and likes computers.
There's a million and one vendors creating software for Windows and Mac that you click to install and then click to use, and even that is enough to put off non-technical people in a lot of cases. Half the issues an IT desk solves are "turn it off and on again" because people are terrified of the unknowable box they think they broke.
Very pretentious take, of course it's an impossible box you literally need a degree to work on those shits. Not all of us have super stem brain I just want to play minecraft on something that has actual design so you can just press a button instead of remembering the right word to type in, shits nuts
Just like in windows, when you want to do something 98% of the time:
Press windows key
Type in the first few letters
Press enter.
Just like with your phone, there's an app store that has everything you need ready to download and install in 1 click.
In some ways, linux simplifies things that are needlessly complex in windows, like instead of every app having it's own updater or directing you to the web to download and manually install the new version, there's 1 app that just updates everything.
There's not a bunch of software you don't know where it came from and cannot remove like on Windows either.
Because windows and OSX both hold your hand and shield you from your computer, and using Linux requires marginally more than 0 knowledge which puts off everyone that isn't at least a little good at and likes computers.
There's a million and one vendors creating software for Windows and Mac that you click to install and then click to use, and even that is enough to put off non-technical people in a lot of cases. Half the issues an IT desk solves are "turn it off and on again" because people are terrified of the unknowable box they think they broke.
Very pretentious take, of course it's an impossible box you literally need a degree to work on those shits. Not all of us have super stem brain I just want to play minecraft on something that has actual design so you can just press a button instead of remembering the right word to type in, shits nuts
not a pretentious take lol theyre 100% accurate
most end users are terrible with computers which is why linux is garbage
theyre also accurate with the turn off and turn on thing
So why should I, a person who doesn't have time to learn the intricacies of computer science use linux?
It's not as bad as they're saying.
Just like in windows, when you want to do something 98% of the time:
Press windows key
Type in the first few letters
Press enter.
Just like with your phone, there's an app store that has everything you need ready to download and install in 1 click.
In some ways, linux simplifies things that are needlessly complex in windows, like instead of every app having it's own updater or directing you to the web to download and manually install the new version, there's 1 app that just updates everything.
There's not a bunch of software you don't know where it came from and cannot remove like on Windows either.
you shouldn't, they didnt say that
You don't need to know compsci to use Linux but you'll probably need to be willing to learn a thing or two in the course of using it
OSX maybe, but Windows offers the end user an astonishing number of ways they can brick their machine if they fuck with the wrong files.
The vendors thing is true though and the main real advantage windows/mac have over competitors.