If something has more merit than the other, it would have wider adoption than Linux does now.
The problem is that Linuxes merit is spread all over the different distros.
One may have a good way to handle updates, while the other works with all sorts of hardware, yet an other can be completely handled through GUI without any command line necessary.
For Linux to have more merit than Windows, it needs all of that combined in one package.
Until then, it really doesn’t have the merit you think it has.
But that’s just not how merit works, things that work better and are better often don’t win out. Not because they are bad but because other things spread faster. The best organism is not the the longest lived one, but the one that reproduces faster.
If something has more merit than the other, it would have wider adoption than Linux does now.
The problem is that Linuxes merit is spread all over the different distros. One may have a good way to handle updates, while the other works with all sorts of hardware, yet an other can be completely handled through GUI without any command line necessary.
For Linux to have more merit than Windows, it needs all of that combined in one package. Until then, it really doesn’t have the merit you think it has.
But that’s just not how merit works, things that work better and are better often don’t win out. Not because they are bad but because other things spread faster. The best organism is not the the longest lived one, but the one that reproduces faster.