Who still uses Microsoft windows except for meaningless corporate work?
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@andreasm @chrisisgr8 folks with corporate overlords who don’t have the mental and emotional capacity to navigate between two types of systems? There’s privilege to being against the grain. It takes time, energy, and effort that many folks stuck in survival mode prioritize spending somewhere else. Blanket statements suggest that you believe everyone values what you do. @scandrof Heh, I legit wrote a short story based on this kind of premise years ago. Complete with the unhelpful tech support guy trying to get things back up and running in the middle of space combat. @scandrof @andreasm @chrisisgr8 I used to do embedded systems programming back when the world was young and we wouldn't have anything to do with operating systems. Bare metal (silicon, actually, but metal seemed cooler) Gamers? Steam is just aight on Linux, but a lot of stuff is still unsupported. That's basically where I'm at. Windows for PC gaming. WSL for anything requiring any kind of programming rigor on the Windows machine. Laptop with Linux for my daily driver. @jdstewart2008 @andreasm @chrisisgr8 yeah unfortunetly many games have antycheats making them impossible to run on linux. There are many times a program you want to try just don't have a linux version. Many people couldn't run anything on wine - not everyone is good at computers (yeah I know it's simple for most of you but majority of people are different). My friends look at me like at some masochist while I struggle to run something on linux 😅 @jdstewart2008 @andreasm @chrisisgr8 Yup. After over a decade without using windows i know use it for Steam @andreasm @chrisisgr8 I also hear that linux is rather a mess accessibility-wise,. If you need things like a screen reader, you're better off with Windows (or mac)... @andreasm @chrisisgr8 game developers, because, unfortunately, Windows has the biggest market share in that category. I'd love to see the linux desktop dominate, but it is how it is. @andreasm @chrisisgr8 I've been seeing some complaints lately about Linux desktops dropping support for accessibility features. That's something we should turn around. |
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