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Re:Microsoft reports record first-quarter revenue of $18.53 ... by shmerl on Thursday October 24, 2013 @11:37PM (#6609610)
I know quite a number of people who were hesitant to dump Windows completely because they couldn't run some games on Linux. Surely that's not the vast majority of Windows users probably, but it's a significant amount still. Lately, with all these new Linux releases and Wine improving greatly, many of them dumped Windows for good.
Re:Microsoft reports record first-quarter revenue of $18.53 ... by CmonDev on Friday October 25, 2013 @04:28AM (#6610405)
I would safely assume those people are mostly geeks/hackers.
Re:Microsoft reports record first-quarter revenue of $18.53 ... by shmerl on Friday October 25, 2013 @11:13AM (#6612089)
Certainly some of them, but not all. Some are just gamers who are upset with Windows and want to move to better systems (for example those who care about DRM free gaming and so on). In general PC gamers are more willing to experiment with new things than the regular crowd it seems.