Assuming you don’t know anything about Linux desktop or server:

• Be patient.
• Linux has Desktop Environments, for short “DE” like GNOME and KDE, whose purpose is to provide a graphical interface and useful utilities.
• Software on Linux is mostly installed through package managers, so you don’t search the web for an installer, you search the web if you need to figure out what software you want to install (alternativeto.net is a good place to start if you already know a similar software), then you install it through your package manager. Some applications won’t be in your distro’s repository, you may want to try installing a flatpak, on KDE you use Discover for that, on GNOME you use GNOME Software. As a last resort you can use AppImages, those are downloaded from the web, ideally from the developer’s GitHub or whatever.
• Linux has excellent hardware support but it’s a good idea to do a web search when you’re buying new hardware, especially peripherals; manufacturers often don’t write drivers for Linux, so the community has to pick up the slack, usually it’s no problem, but sometimes it is.
• Linux users can be very opinionated… Think with your own head, only you truly understand your needs.
• The terminal can be scary but it’s very useful. Once you’re settled in, try to learn a bit about it.
• Conditional on the previous point: if you have more than one computer, learning ssh can be very useful to control one from the other, exchange small files, etc.
• ssh and rsync especially are excellent for transferring files safely and without errors, but they’re encrypted, so they have overhead. File shares on Linux are mostly NFS, which is complicated and not widespread, or Samba (SMB/CIFS), which is Microsoft’s protocol reimplemented, this one is easier and usually integrated in DEs, but it has caveats sometimes, so maybe try to set one up before you need it, it’s not fun to deal with in a hurry.
• Most DEs have system managers to check resource usage and processes (programs), but most people prefer to use terminal utilities like htop, or more recently, the snazzy btop, they can be installed through your package manager.
• Linux doesn’t have drive letters, it has a file structure that starts at “/”, different mass storage devices can be mounted in arbitrary locations in this structure. For example your personal files will be under /home/yourusername, this could be the same partition as everything else, or it could be a separate one, or a separate drive. If you have a non-removable drive where you store only let’s say Games, you could very well “mount” it under /home/yourusername/Games. This is very useful in some cases, and something that Windows I think implemented but still doesn’t use. Removable drives are usually mounted by the DE and end up in /var/run/media or whatever.

Yet if prices somehow go back to sanity, people will flock back to nVidia like they always did

You wish

Your numbers are after tax but I wouldn’t necessarily assume people are paying over 50% of their income in taxes.

Eh, to be fair that’s not so unlikely. Here in Italy I pay about 33% of my income in taxes directly from my salary, as in I don’t ever receive that money, then you’ve got 22% VAT on most purchases excluding food which is 4-5% and energy at 10%.

Energy doesn’t include fuel taxes, which are about 30-40% taxes I think (it’s complex)… Of course if you own a car you are also forced to pay a yearly circulation tax, depending on the engine power and other things, might go from 150€ to… well, a lot, but let’s say 600€ if we exclude extreme cases. And you’re obligated to have insurance as well, that’s another complex cost to calculate and it carries its own taxes. And bi-yearly (2 years) mandatory maintenance and emissions check, that’s not much but it’s still mostly taxes IIRC.

Then there’s lots of small things, public broadcasting fee for our state television, 90€, local taxes for specific reasons, let’s there’s something in your local environment that requires constant upkeep, if you smoke, tobacco costs are mostly taxes (1 packet of cigarettes is 5€).

Do public services count as taxes? Like schools, trash disposal, etc?

If you add it all up I think it can get to 50%.

What about the opposite, “smart kid but doesn’t study”? Turns out not everyone is compatible with the educational environment.

A torta salata, a pie

It’s a pie

then it’s a misused term because 1% of 8 billion is 80 million

Then it’s not the 1%

This joke in various meme formats keeps coming back and it’s very frustrating

It’s 80 million people, across the whole world. Not THAT likely.
More than 1% chance since we’re on the internet after all, but still not that likely.

imagine would would happen if this money went to the workers instead

imagine if they used it develop poor countries

Linux is too mainstream nowadays, I’m moving to FreeBSD

I mean, for that pretty much everyone uses Windows VMs on Windows as well

And drivers too. Yeah, we’ve got the big stuff covered, Intel, AMD, NVidia all release Linux drivers. But peripherals manufacturers mostly target Windows, maybe macOS, but leave Linux drivers to be developed by the community.

I think pretty much everyone here knows that

STLexandria torrent on TL?

Holy shit dude made 220k from this. Good on him for not being afraid to speak up.

Now that you mention it, I remember rolling back by reinstalling old packages stored in cache, but not rolling back to a specific date. On dnf I once had to roll-back an update, and that is managed by transaction number (let’s say revert the last update), so it’s good if you don’t know which package exactly is causing the issue.

Well, your arguments are detailed and compelling, so I’m convinced now, thanks.