• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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      While most people find things in windows annoying, they mostly also view using a PC altogether as a chore.

      Viewed through that lense, telling them “well you can get rid of XYZ issues by investing some time in installing Linux” is like someone coming to you and saying “you can spend a few hours working on your washing machine to make it work a little faster and make the beeps less annoying”.

      You’re probably not going to do it. Using a washing machine is a chore already, you don’t want to spend hours tinkering with your washing machine. You don’t want to think about washing machines at all. You just put up with any inconveniences, then go about thinking about stuff you actually care about.

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        Might be tempted to view it through a housing & transportation comparison too. Someone who lives in a too-big house, drives a pickup to the office and complains about expenses and how annoying it is to sit in traffic might not be particularly interested to hear from someone who lives in a comfortable flat, rarely has to go more than 15 minutes by bike and does a lot of bike maintenance themselves, leaving a lot of time & money available for fun.

        Big houses and SUVs and pickups have their place, but investing in them because it’s normal and I want to be normal is likely to lead to a lot of complaints.

        That said, Kids These Days seem to be treating phones and tablets as their default OS. There’s some push in workplaces to use cheaper laptops like Chromebooks if they can get away with it, which with the rise of webapps is increasingly likely. Personally I wouldn’t be very surprised if Windows users in the future can be grouped into people who need:

        1. something that’s barely not chromeos
        2. something more like a desktop xbox os for gamers, and
        3. something that’s kind of a platform for specialized native non-game apps (which may or may not be legacy stuff)
        4. (windows server? what’s that???)
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      The stat likely includes a lot of machines used for work and provisioned by an employer. The company I work for allows me pretty free reign with mine in terms of installing software, but wiping the OS and replacing it is the one thing I wouldn’t get away with.

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      They put up with whatever the PC comes shipped with. And they hate it. Their next computer is also gonna come with windows, cause that is what they know.

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        I guess that’s how I started out too. Then someone left an Ubuntu CD just laying around and changed my life.