Two main points:
- no one unified distro to keep things simple (thread OP)
VS
- people don’t care. Someone else needs to advocate, sell, migrate, and support (medium term) Linux (whichever distro they want) for the intermediate term (few months at least) - thread response).
I think a lot of the 97% desktop market share is like this, instead of the hands on 2-3%.
Most of the desktop marketiss work machines, most people just us a phone now.
And half of those use a linux kernel (the other half is derived from NextSTEP :p).
Then there’s the steamdeck, which proves people really don’t pick operating systems, they just use what’s there… which is really the point… you don’t ‘adopt’ an OS, you just use shit. If it happens to run linux, then cool.
I picked the Steam Deck because it runs Linux but then again, I’m a nerd.
I don’t completely agree… with the release of more affordable Windows handhelds, I have read people sticking with Steam Deck because of SteamOS.
The number of laptops I’ve seen in hotel lobbies seems to suggest otherwise.