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What problems does Linux have to overcome to get more users (programming.dev)
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Games on Linux are great now this is why I fully moved to Linux. Is the the work place Pc's market improving.

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[–] 40 points 1 year ago* (8 children)

Almost nobody "chooses" an OS. What needs to happen for wide-spread adoption is for first time computer users to be presented with something running Linux.

Microsoft understood this, that's why Windows has been the default in classrooms since the 80s.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Windows was never the default in classrooms in the 80's, that was Apple. First with the Apple II.

    Windows didn't even exist until 1985 and wasn't widely adopted until 3.0/3.1 in the 90s.

    Windows 386 in the late 80s was widely considered to be a joke:

    https://youtu.be/noEHHB6rnMI

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Thanks for that comment! And it's always the same: the people with a historical perspective that doesn't match the popular opinion get downvoted for spreading knowledge.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Pretty sure that CBM, especially the Commodore Pet, was the default in classrooms in the 80s not Apple.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Windows...in the late 80s was widely considered to be a joke

    Nothing has changed.

    Monopoly was & is the same joke.

    Every fucking shopping concrete labels anything pop over it for the same delusional humor about thinking that not-paper is real any less than the any Mani Mani.

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