Installing OS, 10 years ago:

Windows: click a couple of buttons enter username and password

Linux: Terminal hacking, downloading shell scripts from github

Installing OS today:

Linux: click a couple of buttons, enter username and password

Windows: Terminal hacking, downloading shell scripts from github.

Link to video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qKRmYW1D0S0

  • Sabata
    3·
    6 months ago

    They can half ass it, stuff it with ads, rake in the income and not lose enough users to worry. They have a monopoly and can just keep milking users.

    • Mio@feddit.nu
      1·
      6 months ago

      It works for a while but they will lose market share over time. The home users are mostly not locked in to anything. It is just them that might use their pc at home for work(they should use their work laptop for that). Nowadays most things are webbased. Console/Steamdeck/Android/Chromebooks exists. Microsoft even made Visual Studio Code for any OS so coders can use any OS. The need for Windows is shrinking as people development alternative software for other platforms. It just take time.

      • Sabata
        1·
        6 months ago

        It works for a while but they will lose market share over time.

        The average user thinks their having a spell cast on them if they hear Linux. People are too afraid to learn how to use Windows let alone switch.

        • Mio@feddit.nu
          2·
          6 months ago

          I think many is afraid. It is unknown OS. No one likes change. Many thinks IT is hard. especially elder people. However:

          • There is to few places to even buy a computer with Linux on it.
          • No ads on TV or similar, nowhere to test, not a single .exe file to run and test it out
          • Works differently - need to relearn.

          A kid does not have any problem with the above. This is why Steam Deck is selling. It is just fun to test something new with your friends and see what all the buttons do. Seen as cool. Any guess where this is going when they get adult?

          • Sabata
            1·
            6 months ago

            The people able to figure out Linux will move over, but I don’t think a typical Windows user that goes on Facebook and uses Excel is going to understand or care enough to leave. They are use to being abused.

            • Mio@feddit.nu
              1·
              6 months ago

              That will put sticks in the development. A lot of people think like you say.