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Objectively speaking Linux is not a Windows replacement, its a minix replacement and competes with FreeBSD. Not everyone wants Linux and tbh I wouldnt reccomend Linux to most people.
Written from a mobile phone powered by a minix replacement.
I'm very interested on a longer explanation of this take, considering how many people use Linux as a replacement for windows.
And if the argument is "not everything that runs on windows works on Linux", remember that can be said with windows vs Mac, iOS vs android and even windows 10 vs windows 11.
Objective is a very strong word there. "[OS] Replacement" could mean any number of things.
They're "technically" correct. That's what Torvalds initially created it as. But what it initially was, and now is are very different things. I'm sure they would call OSX a BSD replacement and not a Windows replacement. Despite many people replacing windows with it. It's pedantically obtuse.
Right now the biggest wall from wider consumer adoption of Linux. Is honestly, simply the lack of systems offered to consumers with it. Outside of a few games with kernel level anti cheat. Or highly proprietary specialized softwares. There's very little that you cannot currently do on Linux that you can do on Windows.
Your Average user/consumer doesn't install any operating system. Whether it is Windows Linux or Mac OS. They simply run what the computer came with. And that's always been windows unless it is an Apple computer. That's part of what the 1999 antitrust suit would have sought to remedy. Microsoft punished any company that had dared to even offer systems with Linux for a long time. And nothing was ever really done to stop it.