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dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

As much as I like to see this sentiment, I think now as ever the people who actually follow through with moving to Linux will be few in number.

Most users who get fed up and decide the hell with it are likely to just buy a Mac instead, as revolting a development as that may be.

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geophysicist@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
yeah this was me. swapped to Mac. Couldn’t bring myself to sign up to all the debugging that would go into having a Linux based laptop. I left windows due to the overhead of disabling the bloatware, popups and general bullshit. I didn’t want to swap that for other ongoing issues. Just give me something that works. It’s an OS, not a hobby project

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- iopq@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yeah, but Mac is actually weird and unintuitive. Like, I never figured out that to install programs you have to drag them in. I just clicked on the icon after opening the .dmg
  
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  - PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    My brother got a Mac for work. He couldn’t get used to the fact that a simple press of the Home key wouldn’t go to the start of the line; it goes to the start of the FILE.
    
    Why??
    
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    MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Oh that would do my head in, i use home to go to the start of a line extensively
    
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  - mindlight@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    It’s so funny that you use the word “unintuitive” and the describe the most intuitive way of adding a program to your computer. 😁
    
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    iopq@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    How would I know to drag anything anywhere?
    
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narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Adoption rate is increasing from what I’ve heard. But you’re right, Linux/a Linux distribution isn’t going to take over anytime soon.

But I think once those users truly switched to Linux, very few will switch back. Sure there’ll be the odd gamer who absolutely “needs” to play that one game which has anti-cheat that’s unsupported on Linux. But other than that, once you’re in, you’re likely in for good. And long-term you pass it on to your family, mainly your children (my first computer was a DOS/Windows machine mostly because my dad used the OS himself then).

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- LostXOR@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yeah, I switched to Mint back in 2019 and can't imagine going back. I have a Windows dual boot for certain games, but whenever I use it it feels like such a terrible experience compared to Linux. I don't think I've used it in a couple months because of that lol.
  
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kirk-clawson@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

are likely to just buy a Mac instead
That's fine, actually. I can talk to a Mac user. I can say things like "it's in a folder under your Home directory" and they will know exactly where that is. Windows users will just stare at you, slack-jawed and drooling.

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- dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Windows user A will not know what their home directory is and will respond as described. Windows user B will assume that it is their “my documents” folder, which may or may not be the case, because: Windows user C will know that there are effectively three home directories in Windows (/users/username, /users/username/documents, and /users/username/appadata/local) but that won’t help anybody determine which one some program actually put the goddamn file in.
  
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