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Perhaps many of us are living in "another world", but I haven't seen a computer in the wild running Windows in the last ~6 months. I've been working in a few di
by cryptoz 11y ago
Perhaps many of us are living in "another world", but I haven't seen a computer in the wild running Windows in the last ~6 months. I've been working in a few different co-working spaces in that time - mostly the startup crowd, I suppose, which heavily tilts towards Mac and Linux.
Certainly PG isn't the only one who doesn't see very many Windows computers, and I think this has probably been increasingly true over the last ~9 years since this piece was written.
- doctaj 11y agoIt's easy to get lost in your own bubble.
- meow_mix 11y agoI think most college students will agree that they see windows every single day
- rootlocus 11y agoThis is a nice example for the Bayes theorem: what's the probability of seeing a computer running Windows "in the wild", given that "the wild" comprises the computers of a startup crowd located in the same area. When you're limiting the universe to such a small fraction of similar samples, you're bound to get skewed results.