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Microsoft also used to have 90% market share. It's less impressive now that Mac is a viable competitor and iOS and Android are good enough for 80% of common tasks.
How much of the Office Suite market do they have though?
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That’s simply untrue. I have a phone, a tablet, and a laptop. I do different things on each. None has supplanted the others; they all supplement each other.
You do that, but it doesn't generalise. Mobile phone ownership exceeded laptop/desktop ownership in the us in the last 2 years and the latter is in a slow constant decline. A lot of people are going to be happy with just the phone in the future.
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Too bad if you're interested in playing Age Of Empires 2 and older titles like Medieval Total War... There are some concern about graphics performance as well, it seems most titles are not tuned for Linux. Do you have the same graphic performance under linux?
Linux can play pretty much anything under Proton now. And older games tend to work better than on Windows because Proton runs the actual code instead of trying to force it through the current windows OS that is 10 versions on and doesn't have any of the APIs anymore. A lot of old windows games don't even run on windows anymore.
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Until and unless Microsoft Office products are on Linux natively and are supported by Microsoft, Linux will never be a mainstream operating system. And that's never going to happen.
My Android phone runs native Microsoft Office apps, so we are half-way there. I am just waiting for Microsoft to give up on Windows-on-Arm and instead create a Microsoft-branded Linux distribution that has an actual Windows subsystem for Linux (that is, a compatibility / emulation layer similar to Wine or Proton to run legacy Windows software). Decades of backward compatibility makes Windows a resource hog. I do not…
Linux/*BSD may still be that awkward friend who sometimes misreads your intentions and causes awkward moments or knocks glasses over, but at least tries to respect you (snapd excepted). Windows these days doesn't seem to respect you. There's a difference in my mind between struggling to make your computer do something (because nobody made it easy yet) and struggling to make your computer do something (because a marke…
Linux/*BSD may still be that awkward friend who sometimes misreads your intentions and causes awkward moments or knocks glasses over, but at least tries to respect you (snapd excepted). Windows these days doesn't seem to respect you. There's a difference in my mind between struggling to make your computer do something (because nobody made it easy yet) and struggling to make your computer do something (because a marke…
Linux is like a friend, not even awkward at this point.
Windows is like a drunk at a bar, who, half an hour ago, was just talking too loudly but now has started groping you.
In ten years, I can imagine Windows trying to override literally anything someone does on their machine, including the text they type, if MS can imagine profits. Nothing is off the table, why should it be. Nothing stops this.
The company software auto updated my machine to Win 11. There were many issues but two of them really struck out 1. The right click context menu change 2. The highlight around windows on Alt + Tab got very hard to see I just gave up in a week and got a new machine with Win 10 from IT. Had to install everything from scratch.