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Valve Says The Companies Making RAM Give Them A Price And If They Say No, They ‘Never Talk To Us Again’ (kotaku.com)
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[–] 3 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

Having an option vs not having an option

Also Linux and Windows are pretty different in use cases and capabilities. Meanwhile, local AI models have a very similar user experience. If hardware was cheaper and people could run better LLMs locally, they wouldn't pay monthly for it.

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  • [+] -7 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    You're right, the general public doesn't use Linux due to the lack of ability to browse the web and file their taxes—Windows exclusive functionality.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago

    In the workplace, there are still a lot of domain specific programs that don't have Linux support. Companies don't have much of an incentive to port that stuff over. As for the people who just need a web browser, they probably would use Linux just fine if they could buy a computer at BestBuy that comes with Linux preinstalled

    Compare that to LLM programs, where it's a matter of "download this app instead of that one, because this one is free and that one costs $25 a month"

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