It comes with every issue

What issues are you talking about. Could you provide one or two examples?

doesn’t have NEARLY the amount of software supported

because linux is currently undergoing a unification of software with flatpaks ... so the amount directly supported software is very quickly increasing like nothing before

It’s still a nightmare to install new software.

Almost all distros have graphical software installers now ... so i can't really agree with you, sorry.

Linux itself is incompatible with the basic user function ... People want it to be extremely easy, extremely simple, and easy to find.

Every desktop main menu has a search function ... so finding stuff is as easy as never before.

What an utterly meaningless statement.

I'd say meaningless is the wrong word ... i think you wanted to say "obvious" ... which i agree. It's just that some people seem to forget and i got into the habit of reminding them.

Why? Because it’s unnecessarily complicated for basic daily use.

Still sounds to me like you might be mixing your preconceptions and maybe old experiences

There’s a reason that Microsoft and Apple dominate the home computer market and it’s simply due to ease of use.

I'd say its mostly because of clever marketing and having their stuff pre-installed and the average user not knowing about alternatives ... but i wont say that they didn't learn maintain a reasonable easy to use UI for their systems, especially since the insentive for profit is pretty high.

simply to move a folder from one location to another. The fact that Distros have had to build in this feature much later and a decade after the fact is utterly insane.

Now this sounds like you havent used any linux distro in a very long time ... but maybe i am just misunderstanding you and you are meaning something more specific, which i can't really make out, sorry.

Y’all can have fun using an abacus but I’ll stick with a calculator thats simple, easy, clean, and user friendly.

Obviously you can do as you like, i just wanted to better understand your perspectiv on this matter. And i think i already have a better understanding but ... i think i am still missing some parts.

Thanks for the nice discussion so far.

Chrome OS is literally built on the Linux kernel and you're saying it's simpler lmao. It overtook because Google created their own entire class of laptop devices undercutting the price of most entry level options, preinstalled with ChromeOS.

More steps to get anything done is not correct, the entire reason I use Linux at work is because it takes less steps to get things done than Windows.

Installing Firefox on windows:

1. Open browser

2. Search for Firefox

3. Click result

4. Find and click download button

5. Click .exe

6. Click yes on security dialog

7. Click next a bunch of times (I'll be fair and make this a single step)

8. Launch

On Linux (assuming it isn't installed by default on your distro):

1. Open terminal

2. sudo apt install Firefox

3. type 'y'

4. Launch

At least double the amount of steps if you don't include launching the browser. You're talking absolute shit saying it's 'simple fact' when I could give many other examples that objectively prove your statement false.

Is it more difficult to use for the average user? Sure. Is it more difficult for everyone? No.

Which is all irrelevant to original point and doesn't change how factual my comment is. Should we start replying to comments making any factual point now?