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You know that #Linux is becoming mainstream on #desktop computers when a Czech consumer magazine focused on product testing, #DTest, recommends switching to Linux.

"However, there is another solution. Fortunately, it is no longer true that only Microsoft operating systems are suitable for ordinary people and that only eccentric IT wizards with a silicon soul can use anything else. Now, a number of GNU/Linux operating systems offer a level of ease of use that is at least comparable to that of MS Windows."

A photo of a Czech article which is about the end of Windows 10 support and Linux as a viable alternative even for ordinary users.
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Francesco P Lovergine

The hard truth is that 'ordinary people' nowadays do not use computers; they use mobile devices. When they also need to use a keyboard, their usual choice is a tablet with a keyboard. A computer is generally a last-resort device, and most people find both Windows and Linux equally unfriendly because they are not designed for mobile-first people. I know tons of ordinary people who no longer own a computer or use it very rarely.
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Jiří Eischmann

@gisgeek Desktops are still used for any serious "computing" work and I have seen very few people who do it on mobile devices (happily). My sister works for a pharmaceutical company and major source of frustration in the company is that they only have an iPad with an external keyboard as their work device. Most of them have purchased their private laptops to do any serious work tasks.

That said, it's true that many people don't have to do any serious "computing" work or not frequently. Those are just fine with phones or tablets.

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Jiří Eischmann

@gisgeek her experience is recent. She joined the company last year and purchased the laptop one month after joining on advice from other colleagues. She is 35, so not a young generation, but also not old.
She says the tablet is OK for work on the go: quick replies, checking info etc. But once she gets home, she takes the laptop because any long writing or working with spreadsheets is just cumbersome on the tablet: the screen is small, the keyboard is not comfortable to write on... I'm pretty sure the youngest generation is more comfortable with it, but even among them it's hard to find someone who would want to write e.g. a thesis on it.
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