Since you mention Windows 1 specifically Im going to restrict this discussion to the desktop. The perception italic of the typical average and majority user of desktops is that Windows 1 is superior to OS and that both are superior to Linux. This is verified by user polling and market share. There are several reasons for this. Linux came to the desktop with nopelling story at a time when Windows due mostly to earlier illegal marketing practices by Microsoft dominated. People put effort into learning how to use systems and they will only abandon them if the new system offers an advantage topensate for having to learn how to use it. The single biggest reasons why Linux market share remains tiny is that it has never offered apelling advantage. italic The next reason is one user perception. It doesn matter what Linux fans think the perception italic of the majority of people who use desktopputers is that the applications available on Windows are better and that Windows systems are better supported. Linux applications are not seen to be as good as Windows applications. Linux driver support is not seen to be as good as Windows driver support. italic Et cetera. This perception is supported by the reality of market share. More money is spent developing applications for Windows than for Linux. More money is spent by hardware vendors to write drivers for and test and integrate Windows than for Linux. The final reason is that open source programs andmercial multiplatform programs almost always run as well on Windows as on Linux. Even before Windows subsystem for Linux open source provides wrote portable codes and Windows was sufficiently Posixpliant to run them. Even GNU Emacs over Stallman personal objections runs well enough on Windows. horizontal-rule Now I switch to my developer hat For typical users Windows is italic superior. I say that having spent 2 years developing Linux and 2 before that developing Unix. Hardware integration for a typical user is better. Hardware support for a typical user is better. Application used by a typical user are at least as good as but usually better. System administration requires less overhead from the user.