Comment on My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 2 months agoIt’s not a failure to consider the alternatives that slows adoption, it is the very real material problems with those alternatives.
It’s not fair that a multinational corporation gets to wield virtually limitless power to starge the alternatives of oxygen and create as much friction as possible in the process, but it is very real, and blaming the users won’t solve anything.
ruse8145@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
Can you provide a citation for your claims about the process of switching?
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
The comment I replied to didn’t source their claim that it’s the users’ fault, but I notice you didn’t ask them to source their claims.
Perhaps you could explain why your skepticism is so selective before I answer your question.
And perhaps you could be more specific about what claim you want “sourced”. That the switch to linux has a lot of friction? That it’s difficult? That users aren’t simply failing to consider it? That blaming the users isn’t the solution?
What exactly do you want me to source?
ruse8145@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
I didn’t notice or care about their comment, it was meaningless bs. Yours is something for which it’s feasible to provide evidence, it’s a novel claim, and I saw nothing to back it up other than hostility.
Everyone mostly agrees on this, not interesting
This is the interesting claim. After all Linux deliberately shoots its legs off every few years, why does Microsoft need to help?
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Honestly your original question was so vague and terse I almost didn’t reply, it just seemed so pointless. If you don’t want hostility, don’t come with an attitude like that.
Given you’re asking for evidence of Microsoft’s sabotaging of open source projects including Linux, it’s actually like one of the most famous examples of anticompetitive behaviour in history. Start there: en.wikipedia.org/…/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis…