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The Windows/Linux situation over the past few decades is an interesting study in just how bad you can make a paid product before people will suffer some friction to move to a free one.

Like 29 May at 1:08 | Open on eigenmagic.net

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JP

@vampiress I would argue structural barriers were erected by private interests to prevent moving being viable at lower levels of friction. Just like in all the other situations they did that.

29 May at 2:21 | Open on eigenmagic.net

Elissa

@daedalus Yes, and all this despite the major barrier ("i can't use my OS-native software") being rendered largely moot by every “app" being a web page now.

29 May at 2:48 | Open on eigenmagic.net

JP

@vampiress Apple is working very hard to undermine that on iOS

29 May at 2:52 | Open on eigenmagic.net

Elissa

@daedalus The every app being a web page? Yes.

29 May at 2:52 | Open on eigenmagic.net

:PUA: Shlee fucked around and

@vampiress @daedalus I'm anti-UX.. every toot should be visible as a series of JSON. themes are an antipattern.

29 May at 2:53 | Open on aus.social

Daniel Howard 🌻

@vampiress People with money can pay a bit more for a user-friendly crippled Linux-like experience integrated onto shiny hardware.

29 May at 3:13 | Open on sfba.social

millennial falcon

@vampiress sound like windows/linux is to OS as twitter/fedi is to spcial media

29 May at 5:20 | Open on mastodon.social

Darren

@falcennial There’s a lot to that. For example, one of the things that’s stopped me is the overwhelming choice of distros. @vampiress

29 May at 5:55 | Open on mendeddrum.org