You're listing a lot of excellent reasons to _choose_ Linux over Windows, but you aren't making a strong case that people _are_ using Linux over Windows. In or

You're listing a lot of excellent reasons to _choose_ Linux over Windows, but you aren't making a strong case that people _are_ using Linux over Windows. In order to optimize adoption, a tool should aim for the platforms that potential new users _actually use_, not the ones that they _should_ use. As of 2021, 45% of Stack Overflow survey responders use Windows [0], while 25% each use Linux and MacOS. And I am going to advance the hypothesis that the subgroup of SO survey responders actually skews more towards Linux, based on the fact that the sub-subgroup of professional developers were more likely to use Linux. I expect that the much larger set of developers who don't take SO surveys are less likely to be professionals and therefore less likely to use Linux. Windows is not quite as dominant as it used to be, but poor Windows support will still cut down your growth potential by half (and, if my hypothesis is correct, likely more). [0] https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#most-popular-technologies-op-sys https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#most-popular-...