[michael9k]

Ubuntu is truly awesome as a completely free product, and a huge number of people would be perfectly fine running this, as they basically just do browsing, Facebook, write and few documents etc., however the majority of these people still use Windows as it's pre-installed on their sub $700 laptops (clever move by Microsoft).

Having said that, Windows just have SO much more software, making that OS a preferred choice for most people who use their computer for more "advanced" tasks.

Linux, still, offers only a tiny fraction of the software available for Windows. Generally the quality of software for Windows is MUCH higher (an often comparison by Linux fans when I mention Photoshop is Gimp, which makes me wonder if these people simply just are used to low quality software, or just don't know better?).

It's not a choice between Linux and Microsoft, who cares about the OS (the point of a OS is to be invisible anyway), it's a choice between the software which can solve your problem / work / task.. And in that light, Linux is still lightyears behind Microsoft.

[timbit42]

Ubuntu isn't peak Linux desktop anymore. Linux Mint has taken that crown. There is a reason it's 4 spots below Mint and one spot below Fedora on Distrowatch.com.