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Frankly it has been the case for years already. We keep coming up with ever more exotic reasons for not retiring the x86 hegemony for home computing, but the c
by digi_owl 9y ago
Frankly it has been the case for years already.
We keep coming up with ever more exotic reasons for not retiring the x86 hegemony for home computing, but the core one that we are loath to acknowledge is legacy software.
WinTel sticks around because anything else means a wholesale replacement of every program ever bought.
Even Intel failed against that beast when they tried to push Itanium, and it was not even a desktop product.
Similarly FOSS have a hard time getting a foothold because devs keep breaking backwards compatibility on a whim (and no, Flatpak et al is not a solution. It is lipstick on a pig).