There’s a nugget of truth here.

Linux distros require some understanding of underlying subsystems.

Windows… in theory, does not. From AverageUser9000’s perspective, they can hit the Windows key, type “Google Chrome,” and install it, while on linux it’s not immediately obvious why it doesn’t. You’d have to look up documentation on linux repos, 3rd party repos, containerized stores, and… now you’ve just lost the interest of 99% of the population.

I’m not saying AverageUser9000 isn’t a moron, but I kind of sympathize too. We are effectively linux experts, and:

That’s for practical reasons.

Edge is Google Chrome underneath. So a linux release isn’t much more dev effort on Microsoft’s part.

But they develop Office, and obviously linux was never a commercial target for it.