One of the reasons it has become easier over the years to move from Windows to Linux is because of the development of web technologies. For example, back in 2008, when I first used Linux, Microsoft Word was a quintessential program to have installed on your computer. It wasn’t available for Linux and the best you could do was use OpenOffice, which as we all know, isn’t perfectly compatible with Office documents.
Developments in web technologies have made it possible to use things like Word and Google Docs in the web browser with perfect compatibility with Word documents and parity in feature support. It is a similar story with gaming, if you’re not a diehard gamer who wants the very best performance, you can use the browser to play games via services like Nvidia GeForce NOW.
Alongside these developments, we have seen one web browser, Google Chrome, become utterly dominant across on the desktop and mobile, while other players have slunk into irrelevance. While this could be put down to the dominance of Android and Chrome being bundled as the default browser, I also think there is another reason that people stick with Chrome, and it is also the reason I use Chrome as my daily driver, and it is this: Chrome doesn’t get too adventurous adding new user-facing features or UI overhauls.
