Re:Former Microsoft director of user experience trashes Wind...
by pjmlp on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @07:52AM
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2% desktop market share (traditional PCs + laptops) during the last 20 years since people started making that assertion after each single Windows release that annoys them somehow.
Windows XP toy's are us UI, DX10 being Vista only, Windows 7 new UI, Windows 8 new UI, Windows 8.1 new UI, UWP focus, ....
ChromeOS and Android don't count as Linux desktops, given the only thing Linux about them, is their usage of the Linux kernel, considered by Google an implementation detail and not exposed as public userspace APIs to the respective store apps.
Re:Former Microsoft director of user experience trashes Wind...
by midoridensha on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @05:42AM
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You can see it in usage stats for desktop Linux. So many people have claimed over the years that they were going to change, yet never did. If they had, the usage stats would be much higher, but desktop Linux really hasn't gained much popularity over the years. It's sad, because it actually works pretty well these days, despite Gnome doing its best to scare people away by offering a radically different UI than they're used to and pitching itself as the standard (with most of the corporate backing).
How do you know that? Do you follow up on random online people making this claim a few months down the line to make sure they are really running Linux now?