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>I imagine a lot of people would find that absolutely nothing ties them to Windows anymore, even gamers with things like Steam Proton often find their needs met
by john_strinlai 8mo ago
>I imagine a lot of people would find that absolutely nothing ties them to Windows anymore, even gamers with things like Steam Proton often find their needs met.
i absolutely concede the gamers dont have too much of an excuse anymore, unless you play some specific games that are windows-only (or, more accurately, where the anti-cheat malware is windows-only).
but for some reason, these announcements/conversations always leave out the biggest share of windows users, who also happen to be the slowest to change: governments and large institutions (banks, hospitals, universities).
it will be decades yet for them to switch off windows.
another often overlooked one: small businesses that use quickbooks (which is thousands and thousands of small businesses). or engineering firms that use solidworks (or other CAD)
so, yes, for home use it is a fantastic time to explore non-windows options, absolutely. but it aint the "year of the linux desktop" yet, and wont be for awhile, if you count government and institutions.
- nomel 8mo agoAlso overlooked (but only on tech sites ;)), is that the entire corporate world solidly uses windows [1]. [1] https://www.itbrew.com/stories/2024/10/22/over-two-thirds-of-enterprises-are-still-using-windows-10-despite-looming-end-of-service-deadline https://www.itbrew.com/stories/2024/10/22/over-two-thirds-of...
- Bender 8mo agoFWIW a tech company I retired from was about 60% mac and a portion of them operated almost exclusively out of VirtualBox + Linux. IT had some rock solid Linux sysadmins but not quite enough to support most of the company moving to Linux. There are some shops that could go 50% Linux especially on the development side without much issue if compliance and auditors were on board.
- nomel 8mo ago> a tech company Believable. Possibly directly related, 70% of corporations are not tech companies. [1] [1] https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/ https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/