No. People use it because it's what came with their computers (look at ChromeOS, that's Linux), and it's what they grew up with. If you sat a kid in front of a Linux machine, and that's all they ever used, they'd be just as comfortable using it as a Windows user on Windows. I still have technical MS-DOS knowledge from when I was 12 years old. Totally useless skills now, but it didn't stop me from using computers in the late 80s. Computers were orders of magnitude more user-unfriendly then, but we all managed.
Might want to give it another shot these days. Gaming has become exponentially better since then with Steam's Proton software. Still not perfect, but being able to do 90-95% of them ain't bad. The last technical hurdle is games with kernel-level anti-cheat.
I found that switching to Linux made me able to understand both OSes better, and computers in general. Half of my computer science knowledge comes from screwing around with Linux.
You can still dual boot to keep self-teaching yourself latest Windows concepts so you don't fall behind there, while experimenting and learning on Linux in your free time.
Reread your American political history, because Bush got in because Florida was being Florida and totally fucked up a shitload of ballots, and the Supreme Court stepped in and made the decision for them.
The avocado toast meme is from Boomers shitting on Millennials because Millennials are broke due to the Boomers fucking the country and they had to come up with some stupid thing the Millennials must be spending all their money on. It's not political in origin.
Can't possibly have anything to do with the decades of union-busting, corporate deregulation, etc. no, it's the avocado toast.
I'm not sure why everyone is shocked. This has been the case since the beginning of the public Internet. It's their servers, their infrastructure, and everyone should have been completely aware that we are giving them content for free. I was never under any other impression, even back when I was using Usenet and IRC. That's why I don't post anything on social media I truly care about retaining ownership over.
We went from fixed-length elements that don't scale with the browser, to the golden era, and then back to fixed-length elements that don't scale with the browser.
We aren't taught or encouraged to explore or experiment by our educational systems. We are taught how to do something, and then don't question it. There are tons of people that cannot meaningfully play with Lego without assembly instructions. The idea of trying something out of the norm from what they already know never enters into their head.
Like, back in the day, I literally discovered I could drag and drop files directly into the "upload" area on some websites and it would automatically post the file to the site. I didn't even know it was possible, I just out of the blue wondered if a browser can work like a drag and drop file manager and just went ahead and did it.
I'm getting annoyed that every damn thing is turning into a web app now and JS/Chrome is even infecting desktop programs that traditionally were written in a real systems language like C or C++. The technology world feels janky and bloated now, built like a house of cards where one thing is relying on 20 other things, some of them in the cloud, to work right.
Programming these days seems to be more about glueing various services and APIs together to come up with a solution instead of actually coding it.
I will never support disarming the working class and the oppressed. The church stuff sounds nice though.