With the number of people learning about technology as the years go by this isn't surprising at all. On top of that, maintaining a laptop will be difficult because once it has a hardware error - it's can be really hard to go back to where it used to be.
I have laptop installed with Linux and not Windows. I feel more secure with this OS even though I know for sure if hackers want to hack me not even Linux can help. However for majority of the amateur hacker aka kid who can search in google ‘how to hack’ the tools are less relevant due to less popularity.