But right now they'd have to install ubuntu or know to buy a machine with ubuntu pre-installed. Compare to a chromebook, where it already has a linux distro, ch

But right now they'd have to install ubuntu or know to buy a machine with ubuntu pre-installed. Compare to a chromebook, where it already has a linux distro, chromeOS, installed. And at this point I don't think software compatibility (except for gaming) is the biggest issue since thanks to electron/browsers most things should just work. And for zoom, in addition to asking you to select your 'linux type,' has this little gem: "Zoom's rpm packages are signed with a GPG key. Please run "rpm --import package-signing-key.pub" to import the key in case package management utility asks for a missing public key" - though I guess probably the auto-installer thing would run when you opened a zoom link and skip all that. I doubt it's the only time a linux user is assumed to know what a terminal is or expected to know how to use it. On the other hand - for linux - WSL is pretty cool. That's definitely a lot of linux on a lot of people's desktops, whether or not they use it!