I'm a Linux Desktop user. IMO, the thousand cuts can be boiled down to some few major apps not being natively available for Linux, namely Office, incl Outlook,

I'm a Linux Desktop user. IMO, the thousand cuts can be boiled down to some few major apps not being natively available for Linux, namely Office, incl Outlook, and Photoshop, Autocad, and AAA games. And the eventual niche Windows only app - but for those you could use a VM like Apple users do. When using a stable distro like Mint in my laptop, everything just worked and the desktop UX is quite similar to what you get in Windows. The average user couldnt Care less about the OS nowadays. They just want their apps running. For corporate OTOH, Windows desktop is much simpler to support. Linux, or Apple, has nothing not even remotely close.