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Most people use computers to run applications on, not because they prefer one operating system over another, and it's perhaps easy to overlook this in our "enthusiasm" for an o/s.
Sure, if you're just buying a computer for web browsing, email, and word processing (which studies have shown is all that many computers get used for), you can use pretty much any o/s you like. If, however, you have more specific application needs, then that drives the choice of o/s.
Eg, I'm a keen photographer, and I'd be lost without Adobe Lightroom, so that constrains my choice of o/s to either Windows or Mac, and my personal preference is for Windows. I'm sure that there probably are Linux apps that can do most of what Lightroom does, but I don't want to have to learn how to use a new app. I'm happy with what I have.
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