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It's not the PC games keeping people so much. Proton solved a lot of that problem. It's inertia.
Most people don't care about things. They just don't. Their brains just don't have the juice.
A lot is professional software. Many people have one or two pieces of software they use a lot which doesn't run on Linux.
I don't think that's actually very many people. Not for their personal computers. Most people don't run much more than a web browser, if they don't play games.
People tend to use the stuff they're already used to. They could probably use Linux but if they buy a Laptop which has Windows preinstalled and they're used to Windows it's hard to get them to make the jump
Right. Inertia is the metaphor I used to express that idea.