cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/320628

https://redd.it/v8l8vi

These people keep bringing up “mArKeT sHaRE”

  1. Linux is free. How would it get market share?
  2. It’s quite difficult to get an accurate “market share” since user-agents can be faked.

EDIT: I wonder if Microsoft are making anti-Linux accounts to try and hamper Linux.

    • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
      01·
      2 years ago

      This is the relevant reason though. Also the other software. I use specialised software in work that runs only for windows and there problem with compatibility even under the same programs under the same system. Entire thing would probably explode if anyone on the line used linux.

      Anyway, the problem is not Windows. The problem is again, capitalism.

  • freagle@lemmygrad.ml
    01·
    2 years ago

    Hot take incoming.

    It’s because using Windows is traumatizing. Windows users are traumatized, and people who decide to become power users are doubly traumatized. The power users share their first trauma with all Windows users, so they have empathetic identification with them. The power users share their second, chosen, trauma with each other, and therefore see eachother as an in-group community.

    The very existence of Linux suggests that not only was the first trauma unnecessary, indicating a cruel world, but also that the second trauma was unnecessary, meaning that they caused their own suffering for no meaningful purpose.

    Therefore they must resist Linux at all costs in order to maintain their world view that they suffered justly and valiantly, that their friends and family suffer necessarily, and that their in-group is special.

    It’s a form of Stockholm Syndrome.