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Windows is where it is because of Microsoft’s aggression. There’s no essence inside Windows that makes it widespread ex nihilo.

Linux isn’t as widespread as it could be because many people don’t realise it’s a viable alternative to Windows or Mac. It has nothing to do with how many distros there are. Also, newbies are usually recommended Ubuntu or Linux Mint, so it’s not even “so many choices” to begin with.

Also, you do realise you can interact with instances other than yours, right? I use lemm.ee btw.

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mathlad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
It maybe better to not refer new users as newbies. People know the unixt system under the very successful product that is MacOS. Why is MacOS successful? Because it is easy to use and is a complete products with few bugs. I used to use Ubuntu, and before that kde btw.

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- Dnn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  
  People know the unix system under the very successful product that is MacOS.
  
  What? Only techies know that, 99% users don’t and wouldn’t care.
  
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  - mathlad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Are we being overly anal about semantics here? I never said kde is a distro. I just said I used Ubuntu, as in the pure Ubuntu from Canonical, and before that Kubuntu, or Ubuntu with the Plasma Desktop environment KDE. There, it has been a long time since I last used them so I did not remember the name Kubuntu.
    
    Also MacOS is popular because its users don’t have to care that it is a Unix system. You basically just repeated my point. I have never been an Apple fan (my phones were all Android phones), but, well, “it just works” anyone?
    
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    Dnn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    
    Are we being overly anal about semantics here?
    
    Usually not but your whole activity in this thread reads like you’re just hating on Linux for some reason: “too diverse!” “it destroyed my ssd!” (which I doubt). In that context your claim to have been a user just looks like a half-truth to give yourself some credibility.
    
    Anyway, back to the actual topic: I don’t care about mass-adoption. Everything turns to shit when the masses pour over it. In my opinion, Lemmy has reached the critical amount of contributors to get it going, except more actual scientists maybe.
    
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- DmMacniel@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Newbies are new users. Also the average Joe doesn’t know or even want to know that MacOS is a BSD. MacOS is mostly so successful because of marketing, walled gardening and a pretty good eco system. It has its fair share of bugs. And not just software side but also on the hardware side.
  
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