It’s not so much my experience, but an understanding of why people unlike us face hurdles to even trying out Linux to make the switch. If you go on distowatch,

It’s not so much my experience, but an understanding of why people unlike us face hurdles to even trying out Linux to make the switch. If you go on distowatch, look at the download pages for the top ten distros. Some are better than others, but most present a dizzying array of options and terminology that assume the person reading is already familiar with Linux and those options. It would be trivial to add in some “If you don’t know what you’re doing pick this one” to a given flavour to at least give somewhere to begin. Ubuntu at least got that part right at one point in time, but the community largely still has the soft-gatekeeping stance of “if you don’t know what you’re doing this isn’t for you”.