What is that ecosystem now? What do households with windows use that isn't on the cloud?

The problem with the cloud is how often I've run into blanket linux/bsd support bans. Especially when it comes to professional certifications done online. I had one website refusing to work on my FreeBSD or Debian installs. It would just get to a certain point and not let me proceed and multiple buttons refusing to work properly.

Got on the phone with support and they were dumbfounded. Got the idea to just spoof my user agent as a windows box on edge and it worked perfectly afterwards.

Even if not done on purpose there is a lot of crufty shit online that breaks in unsuspecting ways when I'm on a linux/BSD box. Especially if interfacing with the government websites and webapps. Our state fire code website looks straight out of 2002 and has multiple warnings about making sure to use IE6... in 2023.

Maybe its just my use case (fire industry / local government), but it helps to have a mac or windows machine lying around as backup.

A lot of stuff is moving to web/cloud stuff, but we are not there entirely.

As one example, I had to take a proctored exam recently, and the only supported OS was Windows or MacOS. Linux was not an option.

Then there is games, Proton is great but plenty of AAA titles are still not compatible.

Just for starters.

Games for sure, the exam software is disappointing.