Comment on Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever

• Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Nah, I have worked in IT education and in helpdesk. Average user doesn’t have a better time getting into Microsoft products, it’s not easier for them than FOSS. The reason for Windows domination is Microsoft spending money and lobbying power to put it in front of every user.

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  • bobo@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Maybe true today, but less true in earlier times (90s and early 2000s) when Microsoft was really gaining dominance.

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    • Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I don’t think you remember how insanely terrible Windows was in the 90s.

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      • shroomato@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I’m not sure that the alternatives were any better, everything was terrible back then.

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      • caseyweederman@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Luckily they learned from it and redesigned the kernel from scratch – hold on, my producer’s telling me that no, it’s still the NT kernel under there. Outstanding.

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• SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What about the boat loads of marketing - ads - aimed at making you believe those proprietary programs are the best? Clearly you fell for it.

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  • Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’ve used my share of free software. Some of it worked well, but it always felt clunky, and just never as straightforward to use as a paid product.

    But sure, I couldn’t possibly have reached that conclusion on my own, it’s obviously the marketing.

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    • qqq@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Sounds like you’re cherry picking both; I’ve seen plenty of garbage that costs money as well.

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      • Honytawk@feddit.nl ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Sure, but if you look at the top quality softwares, the majority of them are paid.

        Because money is a big encouragement to make them as flawless as possible. Something FOSS just doesn’t have.

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• Ironfist79@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Is that why Outlook is so intuitive and easy to use?

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  • Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I did say private individuals, Outlook is more of a corporate product.

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• lefixxx@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  People don’t have to compile their own kernel to benefit from FOSS. Their phone can run the Linux kernel and the services they use run on FOSS. The more stuff based on FOSS they use the less license fees and RnD they subsidize. Imagine if you had to pay for every FOSS instance you use. Linux kernel, ffmpeg, openssl, docker, WebKit, mySQL and whatever, the same way you pay for GSM or ARM trustzone or console-like-platform-tax

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• MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  And this in turn led to the younger generations being less tech-literate.

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• merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  it’s the reason so few people use FOSS products.

  It’s a reason. Another reason is all the stuff that Microsoft was found guilty of doing during their conviction for abusing their monopoly.

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