The Duff CEO with a Windows-Logo on his forehead: “Gamers use Windows because of its’ user experience not our de facto monopoly.”

Next Image: Duff CEO with Windows-Logo in front of a “Out of Business” sign. Subtitle: “30 minutes after SteamOS is released”

Edit: Yo, I’m not saying this is gonna happen. I just want to say that Windew’s UX sucks ass.

  • nonentity@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    441·
    3 days ago

    I’ve considered Windows a toy OS for decades because the only use case anyone can legitimately make for needing to use it is to play games.

    • merc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      14·
      3 days ago

      Among consumers, sure. But they also have put decades of effort into understanding how business buy and pay for software and computers.

      • CafecitoHippo@lemm.eeEnglish
        7·
        3 days ago

        Oddly enough, the rise of software as a service I think has led to Linux being a more viable option for business use. For my work, I’d still be personally missing MS Excel but that’s because I hate LibreOffice Calc with a passion. I cannot understand some of their keybindings which are not changeable. But so much of what I use these days is just in web browsers.

        • merc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          6·
          3 days ago

          Yeah, it’s true. I don’t think that’s by accident either. The “evil” in Google’s “Don’t be evil” motto was at least somewhat inspired by Microsoft. Now, you can argue about how evil Google has become, but even very early on they saw Microsoft as a prime adversary. That meant not tying themselves to Windows in any way, and it also meant building a lot of capabilities into Chrome that made it so that people weren’t tied to Windows. That has opened the door to SAAS being a thing that happens in the browser, and not in GUIs written in Visual Basic, or something that is tied to the MS platform, which means you’re more and more able to do your normal work on Linux.

          • Zink@programming.devEnglish
            2·
            2 days ago

            I am able to run Linux in a M365 company, and whether Google or Microsoft had more influence on the current state of things, it IS nice that the whole suite works great right there in Firefox.

            Member when instant messaging, email, and cloud file storage didn’t need to be deeply integrated into the OS? I member.

            • merc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              1·
              2 days ago

              I think one reason I really like Lemmy / Mastodon is that they remind me of the days when people ran their own IRC servers, and/or Jabber servers and when that was a normal and standard way to communicate.

              • Zink@programming.devEnglish
                1·
                7 hours ago

                Yeah, and you interacted with them on your PC. So I thought you might like this anecdote.

                I’m totally accustomed to using my phone on the fediverse. Voyager ftw. But, just yesterday I relocated my main PC so that I could use it with a cantilever lap desk on my end of the couch. In my household we tend to hang out together in the same room all the time, so this is a game changer.

                Plus it’s only been a few weeks since I switched this former Windows gaming PC over to Linux Mint. So all the massive UX improvements that brings still feel fresh and impressive for the stuff I use it for. Been running linux on my work machine much longer.

                It’s a proper old man PC setup. My feet are up and I am typing on my old full-sized mechanical keyboard that has the circuit board inside mounted to a slab of metal. I can feel my beard turning gray!

    • endeavor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      92·
      3 days ago

      Its the only os with functional cad as well. Freecad is a user hating joke.

      • bluewing@lemm.eeEnglish
        16·
        3 days ago

        I’ve used several CAD solutions as a toolmaker. And tested even more. All Windows only. I wear the sackcloth and ashes of FreeCAD at home because

        1: It’s free and I don’t need to buy a subscription. Billed monthly or annually-- your choice. I can use FreeCAD as I see fit.

        1. It does NOT require me to store my data in the cloud. I have worked on things that were trade secrets.

        2. If my internet connection goes down I can’t access my work with the full ability to manipulate it.

        3. I absolutely detest the clown car UX that is Fusion 360. I don’t want to click an icon and get a dropdown menu that’s a dozen entries long, then click one of those and getting a submenu that’s ANOTHER 6 entries deep. Ain’t nobody got time for that shit.

        4. Learning difficult things does not scare me.

        • BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.ukEnglish
          1·
          3 days ago

          Honestly part of the thing that drew me to FreeCAD is it reminded me a bit of CATIA. (Mostly it’s the Linux and free part, but the CATIA but helped). It’s certainly got its quirks (to put it mildly) but 1.0 has made strides.