Then why is it that every person I know or even heard about who switched to Linux never went back to OSX or Windows?
The only thing which made them use OSX or Windows in the first place was their ignorance of alternatives. Clearly you've never used any consumer-grade Linux distro like Ubuntu.
Are you kidding? By the time you get through the first half of the requirements document of most windows customers, OSX and Linux alternatives have already been thoroughly ruled out.
It seems that both RHEL [1] and Ubuntu Pro have docs on FIPS, so it looks like the distribution vendors have thought about this problem, at least for paying customers. Might you be able to sketch out what the problem with FIPS compliance on Linux is?
Oh I know about this, but tell what’s simpler: Embed wolfssl per app / make it work with openssl as a module (for system wide usage) or turn a registry key to true?
OSX hasn't existed for five years and hasn't been publicly advertised as that for much longer, so your sampling may be biased.
> The only thing which made them use OSX or Windows in the first place was their ignorance of alternatives.
No, it's the availability of daily software that people use, like Excel, Word, Outlook, etc.
> Clearly you've never used any consumer-grade Linux distro like Ubuntu.
I daily drive a Linux distro. I don't pretend it's better for the average human than MacOS or Windows. The market reflects that. Clearly, you've never worked in an office where the only thing available is a Windows or Mac laptop because those are what IT provides and that's where your customers/users are.
The only thing which made them use OSX or Windows in the first place was their ignorance of alternatives. Clearly you've never used any consumer-grade Linux distro like Ubuntu.