Comment on POV) You use Windows 11 and set up Pihole for the first time.

• sexual_tomato@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Doesn’t matter, in the end, because it’s the same story for tons of us out there. The company I work at now makes a product that only works on Windows. It’s in most of the power plants in the country. You’ve never heard of us unless you are one of half a dozen people at each power plant. There are thousands and thousands of companies just like mine, cranking out software that only works on Windows.

  I think the only thing that will change this trend is the raspberry pi and machines like it. Make it so cheap to equip your employees with a Linux machine that it’s impossible to ignore.

  Even then, though, 10 hours of lost productivity a month makes the windows machine the more valuable buy for even a low paid employee.

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  • CosmicCleric@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Doesn’t matter, in the end, because it’s the same story for tons of us out there.

    Yeah, actually, kind of does. It helps me determine if you just bsing and/or shilling, or if there’s really a product out there that does what you say, which in that case I would like to know so I can stay away from it.

    Also I do get that there’s defined vertical markets that have a small customer base of sales, and they could target a single OS in the development for the product for that vertical market, but then they use that as an example of a problem that the majority has to deal with is not intellectually honest.

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    • praise_idleness@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I live in South Korea and the software I use is a video drm software strictly only for domestic usage. It’s very intrusive software, even killing all the processes it thinks to have a screen capturing(sharing) ability(discord, teams, obs…) Circumventing these measures will also get me banned which is very bad. There is no way they’re making Linux version too. The market is stupendously small in here.

      It’s something that a lot of people have to go through here. AntiDRM/FOSS is just not a thing here at all.

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      • CosmicCleric@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Wow, okay, good to know. I had no idea South Korea was that strict on DRM and such. Learn something new.

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