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They might go in direction of BSDs.
And stumble upon barely useble OSes? BSDs now are as niche as Linux distros were a decade ago
It's more like how Linux was 25+ years ago. BSDs are great for servers and firewalls, but they aren't really ready for desktop use yet.
The year of the BSD desktop is coming
BSD based operating systems work fine for a lot of things. A huge majority of people only use their computers to browse the web, write documents and read their e-mail.
Something like GhostBSD would work perfectly well for this, though afaik GhostBSD is just FreeBSD with a different default configuration.
Though you are not going to be able to do much that involves proprietary software, like playing video games. Unless you use Wine or a proprietary BSD based operating system like that of Sony's or Nintendo's game consoles, or Mac OS.
I'm actually thinking about installing OpenBSD on my laptop, though I would not recommend doing this to anyone who just wants to stop using Windows.
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Maybe this is a roundabout way of saying Mac which are based on BSD.
Anti Commercial-AI license
why?
Well for one PlayStation OS uses FreeBSD and BSDs might be better suitable for Anti cheat DRM stuff game companies want.
Also many Gamers on GhostBSD , NetBSD (mostly retrogames), OpenBSD