Everytime Microsoft blunders, which is a lot and it is reported, it never fails that there will be numerous individuals proclaiming their switch to Linux. But I always feel like a lot of it is just simply clout, a pat-on-the-back feeling for deciding against the masses kind of feel.
And it always makes me beg to really see how those kind of people fare if they actually did switch and use Linux on a daily basis.
I’ll take anyone seriously if they actually switch and sometimes actually talk to me about how their Linux experience is going. Because more times than not, I always assume it’s some dual-boot user who could sneak their way back to Windows time to time and barely use Linux.
And I’ll see the statistics of the OS marketshare budge…slightly, for Linux. I’m proud that Linux at all that it is gaining more usage than it has before than where it had been 15+ years ago and earlier.
Windows never has been the right tool, or even a tool for that matter. That Microsoft managed to convince people that it was actually a usable, efficient and safe system has been one of the biggest marketing tricks, ever.
The simple reason why some hardware may still not work right on Linux can be traced back to that same Microsoft marketing.
My hope is that with this next wave of people swapping over to limit that companies (both hardware providers but also companies in general) finally start seeing the light and make the switch as well
I’m not saying i like windows, but i literally cannot do on linux what i want to do with my setup right now. Linux doesn’t work, windows does, so windows is the right tool at the moment, because it is the only tool, unless i go out of my way to get a different gpu, which i’m not going to do.