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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
What people know and are familiar with is Windows. Without a very pressing reason, they will not spend the time and effort to learn a whole new UI and workflow. Why should they?
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Well, I'd love to run Linux to have more control over my computer, but if I'd do so, I'd run into:
- Having to fiddle with WINE to get my games to run (if they'll even run)
- Switching from one software package to another for several applications, where there is a great Windows version, and nothing that even comes close on Linux
- Run into the fact that there's NO alternative for some applications I use, so it's WINE again.
- Even if I get everything to run, the system parts are chained to one another: if you upgrade X, you often upgrade library A, which makes program Y break, so the package manager upgrades that as well, but that one also uses library B which is then upgraded as also, which makes program Z break, which then can't be upgraded because the maintainer is a jackass and and refuses to use the new version of library B because the curly brace style in the code has changed from K&R to Allmann. (True story, that one.)