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  • Lmao fuck off dude.

    You’ve commented to about everyone in this thread like it’s your job defending a whack job comm.

    “Proving them right” just fuck right off lol

    This isn’t an argument where some moral high ground or any horse shit like that comes into play. It’s a meme about either a dishonest or plain ignorant post.

    Quit trolling people and move on.


  • Oh I definitely don’t disagree with you. There’s a learning curve to be had. Part of that is just the UX of Linux (and the differing UIs), but I think the other part is straight up education.

    Apple early on adopted the strategy of giving computers to schools to get kids used to using their products, but at some point that shifted over to Microsoft as Office was the business standard. Many kids grew up knowing how to use Microsoft products and got used to using them. Shifting to a different unfamiliar platform is harder once you’re comfortable with something.

    Of course then Google stepped in and started pushing cheap Chromebooks to schools and moving people off physical software and storage to cloud products. Now that is trending towards iPads with just apps continuing the online only software options.

    So now you’ve got a generation of kids who don’t even know how to operate a PC let alone do something as basic as open a file.

    It all comes down to education. If schools adopted Linux and introduced it to kids at an early age, I’m sure they’d be proficient with it.


  • Well, they want your browsing data for one so that would make sense, but for Office they don’t want businesses hoping to Linux to get away from Windows if the business suite was available there. Since Office is the “industry standard” they just hold it hostage. If Libre Office adoption ever takes off, I’m sure Microsoft will port it over to recoup lost revenue, but that will only happen if they get desperate.

    As for Mac, they may have just broken Office for Mac for a lot of users.