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The regular average joe isn't going to switch on their own. The average person sees Windows and MacBook as their two options for a laptop.
Also, Linux isn't a replacement for Windows. It's its own thing, with its own issues but also advantages.
And most young people don't have their own computers growing up anymore, it's all phones and tablets and in the USA apple has won that race.
Pc gaming was a 52 billion dollar industry in 2025.
Each 1% of gamers using Linux is then around 500m… and Linux users trend English speaking, so likely wealthy nations unlike the majority of steam windows users.
Conflating 1% of Linux users also being 1% of revenue is pretty asinine lol
Yeah because I’m sure windows users pay way less than macOS users.
I wonder what the techies pay like me who are using Linux. I think I’m up to about $2000 this year on software alone.
I remember humble bundle stated once that Linux users paid much more than windows and iOS per user. It was a number of years ago. There is something to say about per user $$.