If you've ever worked with non-technical people it becomes clear that the issue is not really about Windows, Mac or Linux. They all have issues and they just de

If you've ever worked with non-technical people it becomes clear that the issue is not really about Windows, Mac or Linux. They all have issues and they just delegate it to the "geeks" to figure it out. The non-technical people I know that use Windows have it re-formatted every other month after something stops working. They're just used to having to call the technician constantly. As someone else pointed out here, they don't even know if it's an OS issue, hardware issue or whatever else. It's just how tech works (or not, hehe). Windows is in my experience utter garbage to deal with. We've always had jokes about how it "expires" after a few months and you have to re-install or live with how slow and brittle it gets. It's a black box. BSOD are a common thing we've all had to deal with. Not to mention viruses and the crapware that is oh so common on Windows when people don't know any better. But it really seems like when it comes to Linux people get all critical but for other OSes, they downplay it. All the crashes, issues, quirks, etc are simply not worth mentioning if it's on my favorite non-Linux OS. If it's Linux, oh damn this mess. It's impossible to use! Look! The reality is that Linux desktop will probably never see the light of day because it's a commercial issue and not a technical one. We keep pretending this is a technical discussion when it's really not. Windows won early by letting people pirate it and won the majority of the market share. They can then use that power to force everyone to build drivers to work better with their OS. They can make huge deals getting almost every computer in the world to have it pre-installed. They pay for it. Mac has their cult following and hardware that locks people into their OS. People don't choose OSX. It's their only choice. Only hackers and the more curious will ever venture out of the default choices. But once again, they are there because they pay for it. It's not about quality, it's just money.