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Y'know, I'm pretty deep in the FLOSS brainrot, but as someone who: A. Daily drives Fedora and Debian B. Works for an MSP and deals with Windows daily
Most companies cannot afford the productivity, monetary, or labour hour investment that is involved with changing to a whole new OS and re-training all of the workforce. Thats even if you ignore that switching to Linux generally also involves changing some percentage of programs that are used for business critical processes.
I love Linux, but it's not meant for every situation
And a lot of times it actually isn't that hard. I'm currently the CTO of a medium medical company and we will transition to Linux over the next 2 years. All the work will be browser based, you don't need windows for that. Hell, you don't need windows for anything, except a few inhouse developed apps, which you can restructure to Linux yourself.
A lot of times it's more lack of will than lack of ability, even though the wins are right there for the taking