When new OEM PCs comes with Linux pre-installed is when stuff happens. Not before then. Windows 11 adoption will be slow cause of their exclusion of old hardware. That old hardware will be scrapped or people just keep Windows 10 on it, regardless of security warnings.

The Desktop Linux experience, with gaming and all, seems pretty close to fulfilling everyone needs at this point. But it would not surprise me if Microsoft goes around paying OEM manufacturers to not bundle anything but windows with their products.

That is not entirely accurate. Those laws will be selectively enforced against you in particular, cause they don’t like you. This is a very common tactic in less civilized places. Have rules that no one is following and you have something to hold against your citizens when it suits you. So it does indeed matter.

Holocene Calendar

Older, out of support, nvidia drivers tend to break from time to time.

Privacy, I wager.

This is where the plastic eating bacteria evolved. Over the next few weeks cars fell apart, computer mice crumbled and civilization was no more. Even after the reemergence, people were sticky. The new generation doesnt know non-stickyness.