• Aurenkin
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    7 hours ago

    I don’t think it follows that a product having many users means it is not hated. Just look at health insurance in the US. I’m not saying everyone is secretly itching to ditch Windows and move to Linux as soon as possible but I do think the vast majority of people simply don’t care and just use whatever the default option is provided that things work well enough. If it becomes just as easy to use Linux as Windows (including PC vendors offering Linux preinstalled and working with all appropriate drivers) I think we’d see more people switching because of the slightly cheaper cost alone.

    • juliebean@lemm.ee
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      4 hours ago

      i’m the only one in my friend group that uses linux, but everyone else has like one or two specific apps they need for work that keep them tied to windows, and if those apps were available on linux, they’d jump ship in a heartbeat.

      i’m a fry cook, so my work doesn’t care what OS i run.

    • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      Switching to Linux is literally free. It costs way more to get a license key for Windows than it does to just download Linux. People stick with what they know, and what they know is Windows is for PC, OSX is for Apple, and they may or may not even know anything about Linux at all. I would even go so far as to say most people would run Android for an OS instead of a traditional Linux distro.

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        4 hours ago

        Spending time on it, stops making it free. I’ve used Linux on off for more than 25 years now, but always switched back to Windows because in all those previous instances something weren’t working well enough on Linux. I’m not blaming Linux for this and will at some point try again as I dislike what Windows does in the background.

        But my time is not ‘free’.

        And practically I mostly find using Windows extremely easy. Being in IT specifically for my knowledge about Windows obviously helps there. I follow the notices they send out for my job, so know how to turn off or prevent many of the user annoyances quickly.