You literally never hear "America scientists" even if some of them might be from another country. Same with every single other country I can think of, except China.
For every person switching from Windows to Linux, how many people got a new Chromebook or a Mac, or just do everything on their phones or a tablet?
I have a Linux machine myself, and I love having it, but I don't think the user base is growing particularly quickly as a percentage of PC OS installations.
If they made Wordpad generate Markdown instead of RTF (or as well as, but by default) then I'd consider using it. As it is, I already pay for a Jetbrains license, so I just use Fleet. Massive overkill for note-taking, but it's there and it works.
There was a privacy popup for me, then a pinned ad at the bottom of the screen. I dismissed that with no problem. While scrolling through the article there were two inline ads.
My goodness, some of the comments in here must come from people who thought that those writing the standard were morons who did no research.