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The answers seem to mainly fall into the following 2 categories. With the first being by far the most consequent, given that it's the gateway to category 2 whic
by crtified 3y ago
The answers seem to mainly fall into the following 2 categories. With the first being by far the most consequent, given that it's the gateway to category 2 which most people do not even enter.
1) Commercial inertia
Everything from dominant industry software, to decades-old OEM hardware deals that have seen Windows/Apple become synonymous with the public's computing experience across a long time, to actual commercial partnerships (e.g. Microsoft and Adobe aren't just happily distant buddies, they're actively working together), and more.
2) Individual inertia
For example, the standard tendency of a user to come from a Windows world into a new system, and expect all things to be as Windows. Also, as per that common refrain from some technical toe-dippers - "I try Linux once-in-a-while, and it once did a bad thing, so, ..." - an outsider's shortcomings tend to live on in peoples memories, even though they may have been fixed or improved many years ago now.