>>11853897
I think it is just what most were willing to tolerate until the breaking point where people will switch over. Microsoft just implements awful features, then waits out the backlash for people to just accept it as the norm and tolerable, like the boiling frog story but never actually going over the threshold. I was fine, even happy, with Windows from 3.0 to 3.11 to 98SE to 2000, but then they pissed off many with the need to call in to register XP but after the initial unhappiness most accepted the change, I even liked 7 until they started adding in telemetry and some ad for 10 which was dynamically changed which was my breaking point to finally really listen to the Linux snobs. I still don't know how to work Linux, but I am a lot happier with it on my most modern time machine even though it cannot compare to the nVidia/Intel builds Linux snobs tout today. However only now, when there's not as much big-budget production games dedicated to PC alone, has Linux gained some headway but still people like having advertisements in their OS is what keeps them on Windows.