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Thing is, most people don't use a computer for "anything professional" these days beyond Outlook and maybe Office at work, plus LOBs which are almost always web
by int_19h 2y ago
Thing is, most people don't use a computer for "anything professional" these days beyond Outlook and maybe Office at work, plus LOBs which are almost always web apps these days.
In fact, it increasingly feels like desktop itself is relegated to this kind of use, with smartphone becoming the primary computing device for most things.
- another2another 2y ago> plus LOBs which are almost always web apps these days. And this is where Linux won over MS - it wasn't on the desktop (which is still a mostly terrible experience to this day), but in the server room. Coupled with Java or Perl and OSS Databases (MySQL and Postgres), people began moving software off the desktop and onto websites. Better web browsers (something else MS tried to dominate and were rebuffed) also helped. This cut MS out of the loop on new popular web servers (apache), protocols, languages and infrastructure - probably deliberately. This then allowed alternative platforms like the new iPhone and later android to gain a niche which they've since expanded massively. I think people saw the monoculture that was developing around Windows (from days of XP onwards), and didn't like it, so actively sought to make their own path, Linux became was keystone there (could have been BSD though also...).