"Linux is free. Why are there so few users ?"

Today, I saw an article titled "Linux is free, why are there so few users?" to the general idea is to compare windows with linux to demonstrate its market superiority. I have different opinions on this.

This is part of the comments made by the author of the original article on windows, so I will start to express my opinions here. The first is ease of use. What is ease of use? Baidu encyclopedia provides a detailed explanation of ease of use. The following is one of the explanations:

As explained above, usability is relative to users. Different users have different acceptance capabilities for usability, just like Vim and Emacs, one important reason is that Vim and Emacs support a variety of shortcut keys, which greatly improves the development efficiency of the project. Similarly, as far as I know, there are a lot of linux pure keyboard streams. For these people, the mouse is a cool. For windows systems, there is no ease of use at all. As for the underlying problems, do you think it is better to have a customizable linux system than the one that can only reach the driver level? As a famous saying goes, there is no best, only the most suitable!
What should we do if we want to talk about it? We cannot treat everyone with the standard of programmers. Yes, the graphical interface is much easier to use than the text interface, so I suggest you try the latest ubuntu system, after the test, you will find that ubuntu is more user-friendly than windows. If you are patriotic, try a linux system like windows in China-Ylmf OS. If you have other questions about ease of use, I suggest you read an article titled "is Linux easy to use ".
As for the second opinion of the author of the original article, "we can discuss system issues with people around us", as far as I know, linux far exceeds windows in terms of pure system discussions. Think about it and know that what can be done on linux is far more than that on windows. Naturally, there will be more discussions about it. At least I know that almost all of China's fast-growing areas have their own linux user groups. Windows has never heard of it.
As for the profit model, I am helpless. How far does the traditional software sales model work? According to Google, today's social trend is cloud services! Everyone in China understands that even operating systems can be cracked. Do some people think that commercial software can continue to develop with closed sources? As for the benefits of open source, I think there will be many, which is not my consideration. However, at least there is no such word on the Internet as "XXX cracked version" for an open-source software. If yes, it is also caused by the close source software poisoning too deep.
As for continuity, I am not studying linux culture and history. I can only say that I believe that at least ubuntu and RedHat will be able to continue linux well. (I don't know if it is right or wrong to put my hopes in these two hands. In short, let me take a look)
Finally, the author of the original article put forward a very sharp view on the software operation habits of windows, "the user is not just stuck by the windows system, in addition, it is more "stuck" by various software built on windows systems ". I have to admit that this is worth considering. My opinion is that there are a lot of software with good cross-platform performance. With these software, we can slowly change the habits of the people. After all, habits are really hard to change. At this point, I have to admit that Yu linmu Feng in China is far-sighted.

Author: "steamed noodles from Dad"