That said, barriers to adoption are constantly decreasing too. Many flavours of Linux have been easier to install and use than Windows for a long time now. And it will become easier and cheaper to adopt cryptocurrency in the future too.
EDIT: And I don't get the Ubuntu hate. It's not closed source at all..... Mark has done wonders for the Linux ecosystem.
Haven't tried linux but I'm about to. Is this really true and true for Ubuntu?
It's really true for most of the major linux distros. But if you're going to try linux, go with Linux Mint. Not only is it better than Ubuntu (and their mainline spin is based on Ubuntu, although I use the straight Debian spin) - easier to install, better desktop choices, includes all codecs, etc. -
but Linux Mint takes bitcoin donations.
And don't buy into what the OP is saying - he's uninformed. Linux owns the server market, the embedded device market, and of course the phone and tablet market (Android): and by huge margins. The only reason linux is light in the desktop market is the
very serious arm-twisting that Microsoft and Apple lay on the hardware manufacturers: the advantage of the first mover.