PC gaming revenue on its own is around $45 Billion a year and there are all sorts of vertical market software that only runs on Windows.

But even if all most people want is browser, why go through the hassle of running Linux?

I usually recommended a Windows PC to most people because on the low end, they are cheap, disposable, and if the one odd program they might want to run isn’t available, I didn’t have to hear about it.

If they know what they want, I didn’t have a problem recommending an Air and now for a lot of use cases, a Neo.

> Microsofts esteemed moat (office) is “Web only” on the lowest tier.

If you've ever used it before, you'd quickly come to the conclusion that web only Office is only useful for someone writing essays for school.

The moment you need to do anything more complex than that, the document renders completely differently on web vs app-- not to mention there are tons of critical features that aren't even available on the web version.

I don’t think I’ve ever met someone who only uses the web browser exclusively.

It’s true that most stuff is in the browser, but basically every user has a couple things that are native apps which don’t work on Linux.

Wine has come a long way for gaming, but my experience is for regular programs, most stuff doesn’t work. Even the simple apps are usually critically broken.