We can't know for sure, but I suspect this is the reason that Linux use has grown so much according to StatCounter over the past couple of years. I'm also star

We can't know for sure, but I suspect this is the reason that Linux use has grown so much according to StatCounter over the past couple of years. I'm also starting to think that, for the very first time, Linux is now the "stable" option. Microsoft and Apple, being businesses, are constantly trend-chasing as the tech industry loves to do. I'm not averse to new features, but I want to be able to evaluate new things and choose whether or not to use them on my own terms. When cloud became popular, suddenly the operating system was updated to require accounts when none existed before, iCloud and OneDrive were "in your face" and you didn't necessarily ask for this. Then there's things like Ads in the Windows Start Menu. With Linux, the trend-chasing just isn't there. You might have a software update introduce a bug, that risk can't go away no matter what system you're on, but you're not going to have your user experience change in ways that you didn't expect or want because the vendor decided so. Of course, with SaaS apps that happens routinely at the application-level. But at least our desktop environments and user experience with respects to the OS can stay the way we're used to and like. Even with games, which is the typical use-case for sticking with Windows, Steam is growing the number of available titles for Linux and I'm increasingly impressed. Not every game I want is available on Linux of course but it is trending in a positive direction.