• rottingleaf@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Why do people still use that legacy proprietary malware-ridden morally obsolete operating system?

    • style99@lemm.ee
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      29 minutes ago
      1. It came with the machine.

      2. There are a few things that still don’t quite work as good in Linux.

    • Ready! Player 31@lemmy.world
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      Why do you think they do? Logically think it through.

      Market sharen and incumbent advantage. Ease of adoption (or appearance of). Ubiquity and lack of need to retain. Predatory behaviour by MS. Different priorities for users.

      Unless you actually consider the real reasons why Windows is so widespread you’ll never make a dent in it.

      • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world
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        Ease of adoption (or appearance of)

        Thank you for acknowledging that point. Because since Win7 or so, Almost all major Linux distributions are shitloads easier to learn that any windows environment, no matter how unfamiliar you are with Linux. Basically, all major desktop environments behave like an optimized WinXP desktop.

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      2 hours ago

      For me personally, VR is the last thing holding me back. Hopefully that changes soon though. My laptop has already been Windows-free for a while.

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        1 hour ago

        let me be the one to say: the only people who “need” VR are those earning their money with selling VR products. No one else in the whole wide world actually needs VR.

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          There’s a lot of stuff everyone has that they don’t need. What’s your point? Are you going to go vegan? because technically you don’t need meat. Are you going to stop driving an automatic transmission? Because you don’t need that. Oh, social media (Lemmy included), you definitely don’t need that.

        • aStonedSanta@lemm.ee
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          1 hour ago

          Yeah. But this person spent money on it so they want their devices to run it. I don’t get your point.