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Re:Apple gave me the Hey treatment back in 2014 by modeless on Friday June 19, 2020 @01:24AM (#23571250)
And yet, it is still the most popular desktop OS, and desktop PCs with more open OSes have capabilities that even iPads with keyboard docks can't touch. Plus, there are about a million things you could do to improve the security of an OS that don't require a gatekeeper. Windows specifically has many problems but that shouldn't condemn the entire concept of a computer that the user actually has control over.
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Re:Apple gave me the Hey treatment back in 2014 by zimpenfish on Friday June 19, 2020 @01:48AM (#23571387)
> And yet, it is still the most popular desktop OS

"most popular" in the sense of "most widely installed and tolerated", perhaps, but definitely not "most popular because people actively chose it where there are other viable options" because, for many people, there is no viable alternative (e.g. gamers).

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Re:Apple gave me the Hey treatment back in 2014 by distances on Friday June 19, 2020 @02:09AM (#23571506)
> for many people, there is no viable alternative (e.g. gamers).

There's an increasing feeling that Linux is getting there for gamers too. There are already mainstream narratives [0] that Linux may be better for gaming than Windows!

[0] E.g. https://youtu.be/6T_-HMkgxt0

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Re:Apple gave me the Hey treatment back in 2014 by aegis4244 on Friday June 19, 2020 @04:26AM (#23572331)
My 18 year old step-son does not care about OSS, or Linux. Yesterday his just received a new laptop. He said, "well, I'm going to install Linux on it, you know, for games". By which he means minecraft, which ran much better on Linux than on the native windows 10 his last laptop came with. Higher fps, more terrain loaded....yadayada ...... I shot soda out my nose.
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Re:Apple gave me the Hey treatment back in 2014 by zimpenfish on Friday June 19, 2020 @04:02AM (#23572171)
> There's an increasing feeling that Linux is getting there for gamers too.

True, I definitely see a lot more of the things offered by people like itch.io or Humble Bundle having a Linux option.

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