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it doesn't though.
people continue to use Windows because it's already installed.
people continue to use Ubuntu because they have brain damage and forget that Ubuntu sells your telemetry to 3rd party vendors and that Canonical is the flip-side of the Microsoft coin.
Why not use a free distro like Debian, or Arch, or Mint?
Mint especially wouldn't take much to get used to for an Ubuntu user.
See, this is the type of uselessly disparaging dialogue that people take issue with. Why on earth did you think that this is an OK thing to say?
You don't think some people who consider trying linux make a web search or ask a question somewhere only to get turned off by people immediately arguing about distros and calling them brain damaged?
Right now it's ubuntu that's the meme target, but there's always something like this. If everyone stopped using ubuntu tomorrow, the people who somehow get their self esteem from having a better distro will find something else to fuel that. They will never be happy
I'm happy if people use linux. I'm even happy if they use WSL or homebrew rather than plain windows or os x as it's a gateway drug, even though having windows in particular as a base system seems needlessly painful