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Because Microsoft insists on treating its users with contempt.
With Linux, you don't need to replace your computer if it is capable of running Windows 10. For many, hardware upgrades are a requirement if they wish to stick with Microsoft. Installing a Linux distro will extend the life cycle of an older machine, at no cost.
That's too much value at zero personal cost to ignore.
To add to what others have said, I think Steam OS is making huge waves and that's a really strong force.
On the flip side, SteamOS and the "success" of the steam deck is giving people here a false sense of "OMG THE YEAR OF LINUX IS FINALLY HERE!!!!" because most people that buy a steam deck aren't really "using linux" in the way that OP is talking about. They just bought a game console, and that game consoles OS is based on linux. On the steam surveys sure, it will show as say 5mil more people using linux - but that's just 5 million steam deck sales, not laptops or desktops that have switched to Linux.
There isn't any significant increase in people running Linux on their laptops or desktop computers.
The user experience. The Windows user experience just gets worse and worse while Linux gets better and better.
This is not happening in the wider world, not on any appreciable scale. Here comes lemmy:
"NOAW! People ARE switching in DROVES!"
LOL, the vast majority of people can't spell Linux.
Win10 EOL is surely driving some people away, but it's difficult to put a number on that. Measuring by market share is tricky and can be misleading. Steam Deck popularity may be driving increased usage, but those users aren't necessarily migrating their main OS, just adding a new machine to the mix. But maybe "migrating" their time spent in a given OS counts? It's messy.
recently switched from macos to arch linux and ive never been so happy with an OS
Because Windows 11 sucks the biggest one ever.
The amount of work I was spending to fight the recurring bloat of shit in Windows 10 was eating away at me for years... I had the OS drive in my computer die a little over 2 years ago, so I was having to re-install windows from scratch on a new drive, and going through the install process, see skype and one-drive horse-shit popping up - disabling both, running updates, and they pop back up again... It just killed my spirit. I went distro searching that same day. My laptop followed suit about 6 months later. I never even bothered to finish setting up windows. I left the drive in there with dual-boot options for maybe 3 months before I just re-formatted it to BTRFS for more storage space in Linux.
MS will be very hard pressed to win me back.
Quite a few people have come to their senses. It's taken thirty years but .. hey .. Rome not built in a day.
Because these people don't have to run Quickbooks