Great points, I’m a Linux user and used to use windows myself, what you’ve said about Apple being existential, revolves around this mentality, has hit me. I’d like this to change for Linux. It could provide real freedom to people when using their machines while not being monitored by big tech companies.
Comment on Microsoft lays out Windows 10 life support prices
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 5 months agoInterestingly no. All the data Microsoft collects about OS usage, they seem to use to polish all these issues.
And I’m not saying people shouldn’t try Linux, there are millions of reasons it makes sense, but usability is the only metric that matters for normal users. They are happy to sell their information for convenience and “it just works” attitude. Apple whole existence is based on that mentality. And that is the weakest area of Linux. Partly due to the nature of open source, where people tend to fork and tailor the experience to themselves, and partly due to no usage statistics to base usability around.
Vanshaj@lemmy.world 5 months ago
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
Your right about apples philosophy which apple does reasonably well. But microsoft windows? Never my experience.
Just today at work (where windows is mandatory) got a teams call and had no sound. Turns out after connecting a Bluetooth device and then removing it the internal sound-device got disabled and had to be re enabled in a new settings menu, which sure didn’t pose much challenge for me, but my grandparents?
Linux in contrast feels so much more stable. Applications may update but when i tell the system to behave a certain way it will continue to do so till i tell it not to.