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lvxferre@mander.xyz 3 days agoYour typical Linux user (the penguin) gets really smug when learning about dumb shit Microsoft is doing with Windows. Because that dumb shit is making plenty Windows users consider ditching Windows for Linux.
One of those things is to force-feed AI into the users. Exemplified by Microsoft seeking to transform Windows into an “agentic OS”. People who don’t know how those systems work don’t want it; and people who do, even less.
lavienG@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Perhaps Linux needs a more robust software ecosystem? Just a layman here, so please correct me if I’m mistaken.
lvxferre@mander.xyz 3 days ago
It does, but this is a vicious cycle: small market share → devs don’t release Linux versions for their software → the software ecosystem is fragile → users who’d rather use Linux still need to use Windows → small market share. Anything countering any of those “links” weakens the vicious cycle, including Microsoft pissing off some Windows users; that’s why the penguin gets smug.
lavienG@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
That’s a very comprehensive take. So, looking at it this way, it’s perhaps neither the system’s fault nor the user’s, but more like a ‘product of its time’.
lvxferre@mander.xyz 3 days ago
Something like this, indeed. Or more like a product of the situation, plus a few laws - like network effect (the value a user derives from the OS depends on the number of users using it).
Note that not even the devs are to blame for this; it makes sense someone releasing commercial software would focus on the 70% (Windows), sometimes on the 15% (Mac OS), but almost never on the 4% (Linux).