Debian is what I install to friends and family because the system is really tested, stable and does not annoy them with continuous update pop ups. Then every two years, we have a dinner at my place and I help them upgrade.
They tell me that their pc seems less "magical", that they feel they have more control over what it does.
The only real issue is compatibility with the office suite when the beancounter sends Excel sheets.
Has kernel hotpatching made it into a free distro? The only way I ever got it to work was installing RHEL (money) or Ubuntu Landscape (money after 10 servers). This would be super nice, as then I could once again have year long uptimes for my boxes.
They cannot do this due to enterprise apps.
Maybe for the Home version.
So many companies are on older Win32 ERP software that do not have a webapp. Also games. All Steam games etc would stop working.
They tried with Windows 10S version and nobody uses that.
But wow that pcgamer article shows the mess. Im on a i7 4790k PC w Windows 10 but with 11 I might not get updates??
I haven't actually had any Windows 10 issues... runs all the PC games ever made, all the Windows apps. I try and disable all the telemetry in UI, turn off animations, use Firefox to minimize the privacy issues. Takes a while but once its setup it just trucks on.
Unless you use the products above professionally, you could easily make Linux as your daily driver. You don't need to be tech-savvy to install Linux distros nowadays since most of them already come with a GUI. With that, hardware issues are easily resolvable since (1) it is open-source thus simpler to troubleshoot and (2) other users probably already found a workaround. Most updates in mainstream distros are already one-click too. A lot of them just doesn't update automatically since the philosophy of Linux is "it only needs to be updated when the user explicitly asks me to."
Lol, this might be a chance for linux to outshine windows in hardware support.
At the same time, there isn't a good alternative for everyday use. Although I would consider myself reasonably tech savvy, I can't say I am comfortable enough to use Linux as a daily driver and to trust that I am using it securely, as compared to taking updates with one click from Microsoft or Apple. Maybe my perception is wrong, but we really need better educational resources to teach people and get them comfortable with computing infrastructure (hardware/software/services) from outside the big tech vendors.
Leaving that aside, I am not sure what Microsoft's larger strategy is. It feels to me like they're trying to be more like Apple at times. But if that's the case, why would I use Microsoft? Apple is already very good at being Apple and has better software and hardware for such an experience.