I'm not talking to the vast majority of people. I'm talking to Hacker News readers. The sort of people who would care, and who would be technically capable of r

I'm not talking to the vast majority of people. I'm talking to Hacker News readers. The sort of people who would care, and who would be technically capable of running the system (though to be quite honest, if it weren't for the mental leap of installing something new, the "vast majority" would have no problem running a modern Linux distro). The Hacker News crowd is also full of developers and, well, hackers. The sorts of people who, if they used free operating systems as their daily driver, would be capable of investing in it and improving it until it reaches the potential to have an impact on the market. I struggle to refer to the readers of HN as "hackers", though, considering many of them are the sort of people who would write comments like yours in defense of Windows and excusing away their proprietary behavior.