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Tangentially: The reason Windows is more popular than Linux is because of momentum / existing familiarity and because Microsoft employees are paid to do the ann
by Buttons840 3y ago
Tangentially: The reason Windows is more popular than Linux is because of momentum / existing familiarity and because Microsoft employees are paid to do the annoying work needed to finish that last 5% of the user experience.
As we approach the entire OS being accessible and controllable through a voice interface / LLM, well, that's pretty fun and sexy and is something that open source contributors are more willing to work on. If the Windows interface is "just talk to the computer", and the Linux interface is "just talk to the computer", why wouldn't people switch to Linux? If Grandma can use Linux as well as Windows, why not use Linux?
Sometimes it feels like were converging on AGI faster than we are a universal GUI library.
(Insert joke about the year of Linux.)
- paulddraper 3y ago> The reason Windows is more popular than Linux The reason Windows is more popular than Linux is the mountain of software and device drivers developed for it. Which I realize is chicken-and-egg, but also...it's a really big chicken.