The main point is that Tesco customers are now offered a choice of OS when they buy a new PC, previously you had to buy Windows with your purchase even if you didn't want it.
Tesco are selling budget PC's so even if you do buy the Windows version, running the latest games isn't going to be a very enjoyable experience due to the hardware specifications, thankfully there are lots of other things you can do on a PC some of which may help children to get a better job when they grow up, which just so happens to be the main reason parents buy a PC for their children, theoretically anyway.
The low prices might make retired people buy their first PC, initially you need to spend a lot of time to learn how to use a PC, something many retired people have an abundance of. The fact that all the software they are ever likely to need is available for free is an added bonus for people on a low income.
Today's Linux comes with better hardware support than any past/present OS, the very latest hardware could be a temporary problem but even this is being rectified with the new initiative of working with the hardware manufacturers to write and keep updated drivers for the new hardware prior to it appearing in the shops, as this is a free service there is now no longer any excuse for new hardware to appear on the shelves without Linux drivers in the box.
As we have seen with the release of VISTA, Microsoft's model of dumbing down Windows over the years has resulted in a lot of the user base unable/unwilling to accept changes and instead reverting back to XP, this has never happened with previous versions of Windows because security, prior to VISTA, was always a low priority, sure, some users would put off upgrading but to actually go back to an earlier version was almost unknown.
Times change, some people get left behind and stagnate others move forward and prosper, nothing new there.
