To clarify:
ProtonMail. I don’t hate it, but their choices in what to monetize is bizarre to me, like the ability to make more folders than three, you have to pay to have more folders. Also, it’s not a perfect mail system, you’re going to not get or be able to send 100% of mail because there are mail services people or businesses use that simply don’t register when using ProtonMail.
In an age where there are tons and tons of things out there that is a subscription, paying for the ability to have more features that have been normalized would turn off some people.
I really want to like Linux, I really do and I only ever install it on laptops that have aged.
But it never reaches my desktop, my mainstay, because it can’t do 100% of everything I wanted to. One day, I sat down, opened up a notepad and tried to see what games or what software would work on Linux. My distro of choice would’ve been Mint, here. So, I found a detailed wiki and combed through what games wouldn’t work outright, even with Steam installed. I counted about at least 20+.
As for software, there is no Notepad++ and I refuse to go without it or settle with alternatives. I don’t mind alternatives, but I’ve been using a computer since I was a kid and for years I’ve had to move on from things I once cherished and happily had as my load-out series of programs to install. I’m just tired of always having to do it and I wasn’t going to, to use Linux.
Linux just seems to me, to be best geared for lightweight users at best. Very few can wing it with no problem (obviously long-tenured users and/or programmers). If checking your mail, browsing and streaming is all you care about without the Windows nonsense, with some scattershot choice of gaming, then Linux is for you.
A bold opinion in these towers, for sure.
This is not true:
Everything else in your post is preference, which is fine. I do not understand the love for Notepad++ but that is your choice.
But when you said Linux is basically checking mail and the rare game, well that is nonsense.
I use Linux because I need reliability and no bullshit so I can do my work. I remote into all sorts of environments and deal with Windows often, I would never want any of that on my home or work computer. Windows is too slow and too broken for me to rely on for earning money.
But I also do all my hobbies: music production, photography, graphic design, 3d modeling, 3d printing, creating web pages, etc. There is really nothing I need windows for.
As for games: My library shows 1200 games ready to play, so I am not sure why you say “scattershot”. I am playing the latest Resident Evil Requiem right now. Works perfectly, no set up steps at all.
So fine, maybe linux isn’t for you, but no reason to spread fud.