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In the desktop software world it was often cited that in the lifetime of a PC on average only 6 pieces of software are installed. I wonder if this number is ar
by nikcub 16y ago
In the desktop software world it was often cited that in the lifetime of a PC on average only 6 pieces of software are installed.
I wonder if this number is arbitrary, or there is something to it.
- archangel_one 16y agoI'm not sure I believe it... technical users seem likely to install more apps than that (especially on Windows, where you need to install a bunch of things in order for it to be able to do anything) and every time I see a computer belonging to a "nontechnical" user it's full of little gizmo apps and cruft everywhere. For every computer with 24 variants of Comet Cursor installed, there have to be three with just the bare OS to counterbalance it. I can imagine being able to use Ubuntu without installing a bunch of extra stuff, but I doubt that's what they were thinking of originally :)