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Mac users and Linux users agreed that Flash sucked. Windows users just saw it as the thing that let them play games and videos in the browser without downloadi
by smackfu 15y ago
Mac users and Linux users agreed that Flash sucked. Windows users just saw it as the thing that let them play games and videos in the browser without downloading some stupid plugin for every different site.
- ZeroGravitas 15y agoAnd even though it sucked on Linux, and held back the platform (by e.g. making ARM a 2nd class web platform and not working with pulseaudio or 64-bit) it also gave Linux access to consumer-focussed software that might easily have been delivered with Microsoft-centric technologies that wouldn't have worked at all on Linux. Google's support of Flash on Android and Chrome OS has helped it to become slightly less crappy. Meanwhile Apple's anti-Flash stance has encouraged people to push web-standards harder so Linux has done okay out of the battle.