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No, Apple gives off hipster vibes to the average PC user. Apple products are basically jewelry, you choose Apple products largely to be seen with them, so that when you slide that phone out of your pocket there's that Apple logo on it. So that your bubble is blue in iMessage. That's hipster shit.
The average PC user has never seen Linux running on a PC and doesn't understand what a "distro" is at all. Ubuntu and its default Gnome DE isn't as easily mistaken for Windows as KDE or Cinnamon is, so this one might spark the conversation a little faster, and "average" Windows users tend to compare Linux users of all stripes to vegans.
WIthin the Linux community, Until maybe 5 years ago Ubuntu had the "beginner OS" stank to it. "Start here until you're ready to edit xorg.conf like a real man." Canonical has been shifting away from "Linux for the masses" and more toward "Leveraging synergies" to the point that I straight-up recommend against Ubuntu for daily use as their Snap ecosystem has a lot of disadvantages for desktop users especially gamers. To me, Ubuntu is a radial arm saw, the wonder do-all death trap grampa won't shut up about that no one makes anymore. In the modern day, best practice is to forget they exist.
that's usually the take of someone who has never actually used them. I'm far from an Apple fanboy - I actually use all OS because I understood a while ago that each has its strengths.
my main machine is a Mac and the reason for that is that it is very reliable. I feel like I can count on it to take somewhere and have it just work and not get stuck in a boot loop, or locked out in the login screen (things I faced with linux distros) or stuck in a surprise update screen with Windows.
of course it's a locked down system with little flexibility and could be expensive, but it pays off in reliability imo. when I want to do some more tricky shenanigans I have a machine with linux, and windows is for... well it's only really worth to play games with for me hehe
tldr I wish all jewellery was that useful