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I disagree. Tech people shape governmental IT policies. You already see some governments in the EU moving away from Microsoft. Once the government moves away,

I disagree. Tech people shape governmental IT policies. You already see some governments in the EU moving away from Microsoft. Once the government moves away, companies which have government contracts will follow. I think the dominoes are starting to fall.

anonymous908213 1y ago
This is irrelevant to consumer adoption. The Chinese government uses their own Linux-based OS, which should be a common-sense national security policy, and it would certainly be a good idea for the rest of the world's governments to catch up and not rely on a US for-profit corporation. But even in China, 99% of regular people are using Windows. The dominoes really aren't going anywhere. The average consumer has an extremely high tolerance for security and privacy violations, which is why the state of the market is the way it is, completely dominated by companies that are the antithesis of security and privacy. If a service offers utility to them, nothing else matters. And Windows offers a tremendous amount of utility to the average consumer relative to Linux. The things the general public cares about are not the same things anyone who uses this website cares about.
- avhception 1y ago
  While I think you're mostly right, I disagree with the "tremendous utility [...] relative to Linux". My relatives are certainly no users of this website, and yet they get all the utility they need out of Linux. They don't care about the OS, they mostly just want to use a browser and a few other tasks that work perfectly fine with their Debian installs.
- drnick1 1y ago
  > The average consumer has an extremely high tolerance for security and privacy violations Absolutely, or Facebook/Instagram/Whatsapp and similar "apps" wouldn't be nearly as successful.