I mean you asked. There is nothing special about me, I'm not a basement dweller, I have a job and a family, pay taxes and whatever. I'm not in the US if that matters. And I prefer to use other operating systems than windows or macos.

I use windows and have been since I was a kid in a very computer savvy home. Build my first computer at 8 or 9 years old with surplus 80's parts, ISO slots and all. First OS install was dos with a shell GUI and have had every major windows iteration starting g with 3.1 and up. Of the more modern ones that followed the windows 95 esthetic, I loved windows 2000 pro, hated xp, then loved 7 pro, hated 8, and accepted windows 8.1. When it came to windows 10 I was already getting frustrated with the excessive bloat and OS level Spyware. Now with eindows 11 BIOS level Spyware and so much bloat even the most modern CPUs lag, this is now a bridge too far for me. I will not be upgrading to 11 and will instead be jumping over to Linux. I played around with Linux in the 2000's and a bit with server stuff, but never took it seriously as a desktop replacement OS until now.

So who are the 'real' people switching over? People like me. I don't work in IT. 99% of my computer usage is for things I can do through a web browser, office suit, or gaming through steam, all of which is now very accessible through Linux. If this was Linux from 10 or 15 years ago, I don't think you would have seen the shift happen, but where it is at now is more accessible for the common user than ever before.