People keep flocking to Linux, not just to escape Windows

Video editing is still pretty sub-par on Linux compared to Windows.

DaVinci Resolve technically works on Linux and it's an amazing piece of software that I'd love to use but on Linux there's no h264 support unless you pay $300. Ok no problem, I'd do that except the studio version doesn't support AAC for audio on Linux.

If you want to record from OBS, you have to re-encode the video for Resolve and then after rendering your video with Resolve you have to re-encode it again with another tool for h264 / AAC. That means you have to record + render + edit + render + render instead of just record + edit + render. A huge time sink and waste of drive space.

Kdenlive is there but its text editing capabilities are really lack luster. If you want to do things like create a text call out with a rectangle behind it and have your text styled up where different words are colored up differently or you want to underline a word or 2 you have to spend 10 minutes fighting its text UI, duplicating layers, fiddling with z-indexes and if you decide to change your text later, you have to re-do everything. That or you have to use an external tool like GIMP but that breaks you out of the flow and takes a lot more time.

On Windows, there's Camtasia. It "just works" and you can make text call outs described above in seconds.

Until I can easily create text call outs in videos on Linux (something I do a few times a week) I will use Windows 10 + WSL 2.

You should revel in the fact that you now have choice and not a single option. That does mean you will have to pick one.

All of the options you have been presented with will work fine - there is literally no wrong answer here!

All of them are very well documented and you will not get a "SFC /SCANNOW" type answer if you have a problem.

Windows gives you the worst of both worlds. It restricts the control over the things that matter, and dumps unnecessary knobs on everything else.

Linux flipped that. It stays out of your way, lets you change what you actually care about, and never fights you for ownership of your own computer.

Linux won/is winning because it quietly became the place where your computer feels like yours again.

A lot of adblockers also block GA. See [0], it's basically half of adblockers (by usage).

Technically-savvy users are both more likely to use adblockers, and more likely to switch to Linux, and more likely to alter the default settings of their adblocker to make it block more stuff. Also privacy-aware users, counter-cultural users, etc.

So the data is probably underestimating the amount of Linux sessions because it can't see them.

> By DAP's count, the Linux desktop now has a 5.8% market share.

We can probably up that by another couple of percentage points at least, just from this effect.

At extremes, if we accept the argument that the vast majority of Linux users will be using an ad-blocker that they have configured to block GA, then 5.8% seems incredibly low.

[0] https://www.quantable.com/analytics/whats-blocking-google-an...