I have an Ubuntu server I set up recently for streaming and I was surprised at how much it was still necessary to do about 50% of setup and troubleshooting in the terminal. Maybe Ubuntu is the issue instead of other distros.

To his point, that requires effort and just not interested.

And I use Linux every day for servers - ESXI, NAS, Proxmox, etc - because it's fantastic for those uses.

But a desktop replacement is a much bigger thing to tackle, and I'm not interested in spending time on that. I've done some (Debian, Ubuntu, Mint) and ran into issues just doing what I consider basic things on a test machine.

Windows has its issues, for sure, but all the basic tools are there out of the gate - my 10 year old Logi mouse just works (doesn't on Mint), RDP to/from any machine just works (doesn't on Ubuntu), etc. And I only found out by running those distros as a desktop on hardware.

This is the gap we have getting people to switch. Regular users don't have our interest in getting things to work - to them a PC is the tool for doing the things they want to do, and tinkering with the PC isn't part of that.

Inb4 Steam drops support for Windows 10, foiling your plan

That's where I'm at as well. I don't want to think when it comes to just playing something. I have a streaming server setup on Ubuntu and that required a lot of tinkering that I just didn't feel like doing on my minimal downtime.