Along with the fact you took away the exact opposite of the point I was making, which is that real people and real use cases are Just Working more and more ofte

Along with the fact you took away the exact opposite of the point I was making, which is that real people and real use cases are Just Working more and more often for Linux, Windows is no longer a maintenance free paradise either. Well, I mean, it never really was the paradise that it is often presented as in the Linux vs. Windows debate. I don't know where you're getting the idea that a normal user can fix "my screen is black". I've fixed a lot of relative's Windows machines over the years, in ways that often involved some relatively deep web searching and wizardry. That's just ahistorical garbage. But now even a baseline and otherwise functioning install of Windows does not start out user friendly. It is a nightmare of popup hell that none of my family like to use, and I must deduct major points from considering the user a monetization source and stuffing ads down through your operating system. Thanks to the marketer's decisions, Windows is simply not a 10/10 automatic default choice anymore, and the first derivative is clearly negative. More and more Microsoft wants me to upgrade Windows so they can grab more stuff and more things to stuff ads into, not because they're bringing their users any value.