Re:By Default, Signal Doesn't Recall
by amatecha on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @04:14PM
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Adoption is already happening, as it has been for years, but especially now that MS and Apple are producing worse and worse OS/software that treats the people who use it worse and worse. I'm frequently pleasantly surprised by hearing that someone uses a Linux machine with regularity. It used to be a really rare, techie-only kind of thing. Pulling people away from literal decades of complete personal-computing domination with a completely free, near-zero-marketing alternative is a very slow, gradual process. It's great that those dominant vendors are doing their very best to push everyone to the alternatives :)
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This is all well and good, but the problem is, I've seen comments word for word like this one back in 2006 - and wrote some of them myself even. Back then it was Vista that was supposed to drive Windows users away, and, indeed, I personally helped some brave folk switch. Some lasted longer than ours but all were eventually back on Windows.
Yeah, for me the big difference is the past year or two people are actually asking me about Linux and wanting my help to try it out because they are sick of Windows and sick of the forced updates. My aunt's external HDD got wiped from a Win10 forced update (no clue why, I didn't investigate in-depth). People are just done with that shit.