I could not have said this any better myself, as to why there is a silent shift happening.
A few years ago there was a case of Linux having maybe 1 to 1.5% of the desktop,
at best, and right now we’re looking at somewhere between 6 and 7% percent of the
desktop market, depending on where you look, and growing.
Even in the gaming sector…
This, all of a seemingly sudden after all these years, and it’s rapidly increasing, mainly at the cost of Microsoft, with users moving from Windows to Linux and MAC, and the main reason being mainly due to what is being forced upon the users, the lack of freedoms, the intrusiveness as well as the sudden changes to UI and things that used to work, no longer being there etc.
People want control, ownership, access to THEIR data, privacy, things working consistently without forced sudden changes.