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Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

They had internet explorer dominance, they pissed that away

They had PC gaming OS dominance, they're now pissing that away

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The closest thing they had to internet explorer dominance is saying that it was manditory to be installed in every OS. The OS had market dominance, and you couldn't uninstall internet explorer.

But actual usage? Everybody used Netscape.

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

People who knew what they were doing with computers used Netscape until it died, those people went to Mozilla suite and then Firefox (well, Phoenix then Firebird then Firefox). But that was a shrinking minority of people on the internet at the turn of the millennium.

Practically everyone else used IE (90%+ of web traffic at its peak) and continued to do so until Google released Chrome and shone a light on how little Microsoft had been doing for nearly a decade.

Dominance was dominance however they got it, and they pissed it away through complacency, somewhat similarly to what they're doing now.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

This is your rose tinted hindsight fantasy.