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[–] Retro_unlimited@lemmy.world 55 points 2 months ago (12 children)

Is called “Windows” because they are always looking in at you. I have been on Linux since they announced recall, and their fucking one drive kept secretly uploading my desktop files! (Kept seeing sync icons, even with all that disabled). Since then I now have my wife, uncle, dad, friends, etc all running Linux now.

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 16 points 2 months ago (11 children)

How? I have been trying to switch people to linux for over a year and failing

[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Just give up on any productivity software. And any specialty software unrelated to programming. And games.

Source: programmer that uses Linux daily.

[–] Teils13 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Office on the Web can work for many people. I don't know how many people actually use speciality softwares outside of Office, they must not be many. Games are pretty much click and play now, only some pesky anti-cheat that demands kernel access remains, but not every gamer plays those games.

[–] Goodtoknow@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Adobe suite is another big one. I know folks who have to use windows for Premier, Photoshop, illustrator ect. If Adobe ported their stuff to Linux, that would be a huge shift in the market

[–] Teils13 1 points 2 months ago

Let's hope Adobe continues to extract ever more money out of its clients, so that the libre alternatives can get a chance for chipping it away at the edges, since there are many sectors where they are more in parity than libreoffice with microsoft office.

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