Hardware support. I've been lucky in the past but not so on my new machine, where I'm learning that "RX 480 is supported" really means "it'll kind of work, but to get full resolution and and HDMI sound you have to compile you're own bleeding edge kernel.

>I'm curious why is Linux nonstarter?

Because as soon as an average person can't install Microsoft Word they get frustrated and give up. I wish it wasn't the case but every single non technical person I have tried to push Linux to has had zero interest.

It doesn't start faster than Windows 10 in my experience. Ubuntu server without desktop might, but Linux Mint 18 definitely does not on my hardware.

Anyway, there are plenty of reasons that people don't use Linux and you can find a lot of them with this search term - https://www.google.com/search?q=why+don%27t+people+use+linux

If you need convincing that next to nobody runs Linux on their desktop, you can read about that here - https://www.google.com/search?q=linux+desktop+market+share

Linking google searches is pretty meaningless and borders on insulting

Why? Obviously, given the very basic nature of the question, this person hasn't looked into it at all.

Do you think I should have summarized all of the search results instead of just linking them?

What in fact is so meaningless about responding in this way?

Do you really think the question posed was so insightful and hitherto unanswered that we should all spend time considering it deeply here in this thread?

Honestly I find it extremely insulting that, in every thread about Windows, there are twelve or so people here who come here simply to wonder out loud why nobody uses their favorite non-Windows operating system or to extol it's supremacy (and how could anybody else possibly ever think otherwise??). That's crap.