I guess competing is correct, but I don’t see it overtaking steamOS any time soon or even coming close since the steamdeck is an actual product marketed by a for-profit company.

I feel like it may not overtake KDE, from the graphs the trend seems to somewhat be following there too recently. Like a bump in number of downloads because of popularity, but not a linear trend. Does that even make sense?

fast ≠ widespread or consistent. mobile data tends to have excruciatingly low upload speeds (at least in my region)

well if they’re proper journalists then they shouldn’t, journalism is not the job where you push your opinions into others.

Apparently it requires a Microsoft account to work, so local-only accounts are safe (in the case of patched windows ISOs). But this only disabled GDID and there’s still no guarantee that there aren’t other idenfiers.

The only part of “just works” that’s still “just” working is that windows comes installed by default on the vast majority of laptops. I dread having to use windows each time I have to, not because linux is that much better, but because windows is really just that much worse.

arguably more stupid for using windows and assuming there was any level of privacy

Possibly, but how often do you use WiFi on a phone?

Basically whenever I’m at home or a relative’s house?

When people comment about having issues with Linux, this is what that should be compared with.

Or not, since linux distros ideally shouldn’t be bound to windows. (but realistically they are)