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.
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.
Among consumers, sure. But they also have put decades of effort into understanding how business buy and pay for software and computers.
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.
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.
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.
Ah, there's Adobe and maybe some 3D modelling software
Adobe is sadly huge for design professionals. Also fuck Adobe
Autodesk is huge as well. Also fuck Autodesk
Adobe is the only reason I still have one of my PCs set to dual-boot Windoze.
I was looking at Ubuntu studio which can work with adobe filetype, but i wouldn't switch unless i had a backup machine with adobe software just in case.
Yes and also yes
Fact. I only still use it because of game compatibility.
Its the only os with functional cad as well. Freecad is a user hating joke.
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.
It does NOT require me to store my data in the cloud. I have worked on things that were trade secrets.
If my internet connection goes down I can't access my work with the full ability to manipulate it.
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.
Learning difficult things does not scare me.
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.
Cries in professional CAD-Software-User-Noises
Honestly Onshape is great and works in browser
Some of my customers would skin me alive knowing that I upload their Data to some online CAD Service.... sorry.