Re:After 30 Years, Linux Finally Hits 3% Market Share
by juujian on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @05:56AM
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Oh, the lock in still exists. In many fields. You need a certain software to be competitive, so you have to use whatever os supports it. I know people who have switched from Mac os to windows because office is slightly janky on Mac os. Lock ins happen all the time.
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Re:After 30 Years, Linux Finally Hits 3% Market Share
by Kye on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @06:35AM
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There's also a thing where software supports Mac and Windows, but really needs a lot of memory and storage, so the absurd markups Apple went back to charging in the Apple silicon era make it unviable for all but the most profitable workloads. I looked into Apple when laptop shopping recently, but couldn't justify or afford the markup to get the storage and memory I can put in the laptop I went with for a fraction of the cost.