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Or even, versus calmly window-shopping
On a recent episode of the "Ask Noah Show", the hosts talked about how and why they became involved in using Linux, Open Source Software, and things like that. One of the hosts mentioned he became interested in Linux, not because he hated Microsoft or had become fed up with Windows, but because he found Linux, and it was cool and different, and he thought it was fun to play with. As time goes on, of course, Windows becomes less fun to play with, and Linux just gets better, so it becomes a more viable platform for personal use.
I had much the same trajectory. I started in the mid-2000s with some live disk, and it was fun and different. Then I got some Ubuntu live CDs and had fun with them. My friend and I had some really old computers, and since Windows 7 was a no-go, and we weren't smart enough to find keys or crack XP, we decided to use this free Linux thing. Plus it came with a lot of games, and cool wallpapers, and it was different and weird!
Eventually I discovered that Linux was actually Serious Business, and it was used on servers around the world. In college I had a friend who ran it full time on his computer. My roommate ran it on his netbook off an SD card. I even had a little netbook with a gma500 GPU that requried some funky hacks, but I got Linux Mint to run really well, since Windows was just way too slow on that thing!
Eventually the whole Snowden thing happened, and I realized that "Open Source Software" was pretty important in ensuring you weren't getting spied on. I started using Tor too for a bit in college, mostly just to "support the network" or whatever.
After college I had money and wanted to play video games, so I used Windows on a machine with an Nvidia GPU, and I drank the Apple privacy/security kool-aid for a while, since I had a macbook from college. At some point I gave the Mac to my wife, and I got a Thinkpad, because I remembered Linux was cool and I didn't want to pay for Windows or an expensive computer. After a while I got deeper, with coreboot, the Intel Management Engine, and other things along those lines.
Funnily enough I used Linux before I knew what it was.
These days I'm pretty close to being a Free Software absolutist. I know computers, and I know how to control them, and I think that manufacturers telling me "it's too old, you can't use that any more" or "no, you can't change that" or "no, you can't have that" is ridiculous. I'm also comofortable with modifying source code to fit my own purposes, and having it is a prerequisite to modifying it, and learning more about how my computer works. There's nothing other than policy preventing this, and I like to go with software where the policy is sharing, instead of stealing.
But the point is, I ran TO a thing, because it was interesting and cool, and I wanted it. Lots of people these days are running FROM windows, or macos, and expecting Linux to welcome them with open arms. They're going to be disappointed because it's just code. It's not going to change for them without them changing it, and most people aren't coders.
If you are fleeing something, you need also a place to run to, instead of just landing on the closest available thing and expecting it to form to you. You're leaving the thing in the first place, recognize that if you want all its attributes replicated, you'll end up with the same thing.