Linus believes that Linux is becoming a more viable and pleasant alternative to Windows for personal computing.

“Windows for me is less convenient than running Mint on my laptop. Windows gets in my way more, slows me down, and stops me from doing my job more than Mint does. So, like at this point in time, the convenient option is to run Linux.”

Luke is skeptical that the high volume of Ubuntu-configured laptop sales represents a permanent shift of users to Linux.

“I am not personally convinced that those people are going to keep Linux I'll say not even just Ubuntu but Linux on their laptops. I I suspect people are doing this so that they can not pay for Windows and then they can install Windows and then just through the command line tell it that it should tot”