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Looks have improved a fair amount. The normal user still wouldn't know how to install any software they know on it, however. And I'm not talking about an open-source alternative from apt.

Also, touch screens <3

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for some users, half the fun of switching to linux is realizing there's open source versions of all the software they used to pay for.

Why bother, when in most countries they can just pirate it?

I find no need to pirate software using linux, everything I need is available for free. Pirated software that goes un-updated is a huge security issue anyway.

So around many universities around the globe, specially in poorer countries and see how many care about those security issues.

Or many street bazaars around the globe.

pirated software with a bunch of malware in it?

It is sad, but many people don't care about it, hence why malware is so rampant.

For what it's worth, for software installation there's now "snaps," the new "universal Linux package" format that Canonical has been pushing.

Yet another package format...

Obligatory XKCD : https://xkcd.com/927/

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