Does anyone use Microsoft because they like the software? Because all I ever hear is “I need it for games”, “I need it for work”, or “It’s the only system that works with my hardware”.
One wonders what the market share for OSs would look like if people were able to freely choose what software they liked.
To be honest… If tomorrow WINE was 100% perfect, we’d probably see laptops start moving the direction of phones and it would be terrible for consumers. You’d get your AceOS on your Acer laptop and DellSys on your Dell and so on and they’d all have little marketplaces where you could install LibreOffice next to an ad for some other office suite that costs $100 for some reason and that’s all people would know.
Yes, techy people would have more options but for the average consumer, they have no idea what an OS is. Many don’t know what Windows is. They don’t care or want to care. If presented with the average Linux install screen, supposing they could make it that far by figuring out how to make a bootable flash drive, they’d freak out at all the options and information presented. They’re at the mercy of the manufacturer, and the manufacturer will want to squeeze out every last dollar, and being given control over the OS would be terrible.
The problem is that apart from a handful of geeks (a lot of which tend to gather on sites like this one), nobody is interested in computers. Which admittedly has consequences since computers are definitely interested in them. But then getting people interested in anything nowadays isn’t very easy.
Does anyone use Microsoft because they like the software? Because all I ever hear is “I need it for games”, “I need it for work”, or “It’s the only system that works with my hardware”.
One wonders what the market share for OSs would look like if people were able to freely choose what software they liked.
To be honest… If tomorrow WINE was 100% perfect, we’d probably see laptops start moving the direction of phones and it would be terrible for consumers. You’d get your AceOS on your Acer laptop and DellSys on your Dell and so on and they’d all have little marketplaces where you could install LibreOffice next to an ad for some other office suite that costs $100 for some reason and that’s all people would know.
Yes, techy people would have more options but for the average consumer, they have no idea what an OS is. Many don’t know what Windows is. They don’t care or want to care. If presented with the average Linux install screen, supposing they could make it that far by figuring out how to make a bootable flash drive, they’d freak out at all the options and information presented. They’re at the mercy of the manufacturer, and the manufacturer will want to squeeze out every last dollar, and being given control over the OS would be terrible.
The problem is that apart from a handful of geeks (a lot of which tend to gather on sites like this one), nobody is interested in computers. Which admittedly has consequences since computers are definitely interested in them. But then getting people interested in anything nowadays isn’t very easy.
I use a system 76 laptop.
At one point 30 years ago, yes