people are so lazy and would just pay for a new computer rather than learn Linux That's not what goes on in the real world though, where not everyone is techni

people are so lazy and would just pay for a new computer rather than learn Linux That's not what goes on in the real world though, where not everyone is technically minded. Those people (and there's really a lot of them, way more than there are people who would actually succeed in getting a linux distro installed and running) just want something which powers on and enabes them to browse the web and use office tools. Which theoretically can be done by any OS, but practically: not so much. While it's way better now than e.g. 2 decades ago, the just works factor of linux still isn't on the level of OSX or Windows.