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>People vote with their pocketbook In this case, I don’t think that’s fair. A great number of people can’t devote the time to learning a new operating system o

>People vote with their pocketbook In this case, I don’t think that’s fair. A great number of people can’t devote the time to learning a new operating system or cannot afford a high priced OS X machine.

melling 8y ago
Yeah, after 20 years later you’re kind of screwed. Much of the competition is dead. Beats me. Not like we couldn’t see this coming for two decades. Soon you’ll be the product. Maybe next year will be the year of Linux.
shock 8y ago
> A great number of people can’t devote the time to learning a new operating system Can't or won't? My experience has been that several people I know would rather stay in their comfort zone rather than learn something new. I'm not just talking about OSes here. I qualify this as a won't. I suspect this reluctance to switch from the status quo might apply to a wider population than my acquaintances.
- intopieces 8y ago
  Can't or won't is a distinction without a difference. Desktop/laptop computer ownership is flat and has been for the past decade [0] with smart phones and tablets growing [1]. What's the use in learning an entirely new operating system on your desktop whenever most of your time (65%) is being spent on Mobile anyway? [2] [0] http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/10/29/the-demographics-of-device-ownership/ http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/10/29/the-demographics-of-de... [1] http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/10/29/technology-device-ownership-2015/ http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/10/29/technology-device-owne... [2] "Mobile now accounts for about 65% of total digital media consumption" https://hackernoon.com/how-much-time-do-people-spend-on-their-mobile-phones-in-2017-e5f90a0b10a6 https://hackernoon.com/how-much-time-do-people-spend-on-thei...
swiley 8y ago
What is there to learn on a Gnome/Ubuntu distro? There's a button you click to open firefox/writer/calc and a button you click to open the (arguably inferior to wpa_gui) wifi network GUI. There is a finder/explorer like shell on pretty much any "popular" DE. External drives are auto mounted and there's better point and click support for pretty much any way to move files over the network. There really isn't any learning unless you're a power user, and those are the people that can handle learning. And even if there was, Microsoft moves their UI around often enough that people have had to "learn a new OS" at least three times by now.

melling 8y ago

Yeah, after 20 years later you’re kind of screwed. Much of the competition is dead. Beats me. Not like we couldn’t see this coming for two decades. Soon you’ll be the product. Maybe next year will be the year of Linux.

shock 8y ago

> A great number of people can’t devote the time to learning a new operating system Can't or won't? My experience has been that several people I know would rather stay in their comfort zone rather than learn something new. I'm not just talking about OSes here. I qualify this as a won't. I suspect this reluctance to switch from the status quo might apply to a wider population than my acquaintances.

intopieces 8y ago
Can't or won't is a distinction without a difference. Desktop/laptop computer ownership is flat and has been for the past decade [0] with smart phones and tablets growing [1]. What's the use in learning an entirely new operating system on your desktop whenever most of your time (65%) is being spent on Mobile anyway? [2] [0] http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/10/29/the-demographics-of-device-ownership/ http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/10/29/the-demographics-of-de... [1] http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/10/29/technology-device-ownership-2015/ http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/10/29/technology-device-owne... [2] "Mobile now accounts for about 65% of total digital media consumption" https://hackernoon.com/how-much-time-do-people-spend-on-their-mobile-phones-in-2017-e5f90a0b10a6 https://hackernoon.com/how-much-time-do-people-spend-on-thei...

swiley 8y ago

What is there to learn on a Gnome/Ubuntu distro? There's a button you click to open firefox/writer/calc and a button you click to open the (arguably inferior to wpa_gui) wifi network GUI. There is a finder/explorer like shell on pretty much any "popular" DE. External drives are auto mounted and there's better point and click support for pretty much any way to move files over the network. There really isn't any learning unless you're a power user, and those are the people that can handle learning. And even if there was, Microsoft moves their UI around often enough that people have had to "learn a new OS" at least three times by now.