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Originally posted by guyonearth View PostIf any Linux distro thinks it's going to replace Windows at this point, it's pure delusion.
Other distros don't care about replacing Windows. Users may think things, but the distro makers/mantainers usually know that it's not happening.
What Valve/Steam is doing is mostly delusion too. Steam Machines are way too expensive to arouse any but the most passing interest. Unless they can sell it for $200 bucks, it won't go anywhere.
Not necessarily much better than the competitor, because as you know, consoles live and sell by having interesting exclusives.
I'm not sure what you mean by "suiciding". MS is doing just fine.
http://www.theverge.com/2014/7/22/5925947/microsoft-q4-2014-financial-earnings
http://www.theverge.com/2015/7/21/90...report-q4-2015
http://www.techtimes.com/articles/28...ofit-drops.htm
As you can see, the mantra is "improved revenue, decreased profits". Not good.
Besides, Win8 sold like crap, their mobile segment has sold at a loss since the beginning yet it still has less fucking userbase than Cyanogenmod (the most common Android custom ROM), their app store sucks because there is no userbase, and the PS4 is roflstomping the Xbone outside the USA.
You don't need to have taken advanced economy classes to guess that it's not going well for MS.
It is strong, but it cannot keep getting barrages in its face forever.
Windows is used by a billion machines, if not more. Version is less relevant than you think, it's the ECOSYSTEM that's important.
Here what matters is when MS gets paid, not how big is the current pool of users, or its ecosystem (= amount of third party applications that run on Windows).
The only way MS sees money for Windows is by a one-shot license, usually OEM (linked to hardware).
If you don't change the PC, they don't see any money.
By looking at statistics online, 55% or so of that billion PCs is running Windows 7.
Which means that they were bought quite a few years ago.
Around 15% are Windows XP, and this means they are even older.
And it's not getting better. Most PCs with windows 7 will likely last another 5+ years (physically).
People bitch and moan about every new version, but they end up using it. The OS will just become something you get with the device,
The point here is that CPU performance increases have slowed down A LOT in the last 10 years.
Most people have no reason to change their PC because newer PCs aren't so much more powerful (talking about internet, office, light tasks, which is 99.999% of the userbase needs, of course, gamers are a tiny niche, workstations too).
Back in the day, using a 7-8 year-old PC was like using stone-age tools, nowadays it's pretty common to see PCs of that age that are still perfectly fine even with Win10.
Your whole mantra of "choice" is mostly irrelevant. This idea of dozens of different desktops, GUIs, blah blah that Linux users have been selling for ages is IRRELEVANT. The vast majority of people don't care.
I do care about choice, freedom and stuff. But I also know very well that most users don't care or can't understand what and why and how, like you also explained.
Which is why I said that it is a niche. Linux distros are built from ground up to attract ONLY a specific kind of userbase.
Like OSX/Mac.
Point is, they don't need World Domination to get better support.
OSX is relatively well-supported by third party programs even if it is something like 4% or so of the total PC market.
The rest of the users can (should) stay on Windows or Android or whatever other consumer-oriented OS, less annoyances on Linux, I'm fine with that.
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