Its because a lot of windows users are just plain dumb. Not all of them of course, but barring a few users, most just don&#x27;t care about adware as long as their work gets done. I know too many friends and relatives whose laptops were riddled with all kinds of adware that shipped by the courtesy of download.com, CNET and similar others. When I mention it, they just laugh about it, such is the divide between power-users and noobs of the windows world.<p>What is needed here is providing them education and information. I try my best to bring them to Ubuntu&#x2F;LinuxMint after explaining some basics, but its only a small minority that gets converted. But the ones that do switch, never look back after that!