Retarded Weeb
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- Dec 17, 2022
My post was something of an exaggeration since I don't think Year of the Linux Desktop is really attainable, but I disagree with the way you look at it. I think you misjudge just how much the average person actually uses their computer for. Most people just use their computer to open a web browser and maybe open some simple media like pictures and video. That's all, and Linux or Mac could that just as well as Windows. Even a phone can do that, which is why there's a bunch of people with smartphones and no home computer. Every issue you bring up as to the software compatibility problem is something that only a minority actually care about.Even if you were to overcome that hurdle and make Linux a default on prebuild systems, you'd then hit the next barrier which is software interoperability, and you'd be coming up with even more excuses as for why Year of the Linux Desktop is not a thing.
Gaming on PC? Many people don't even do that in the first place, and many who do never venture past Steam games, which you yourself admit is already almost there.
Playing old games from CD? Who's doing that except enthusiasts who hoard old shit? Particularly enthusiast too because many who do want to play something old would just pirate an ISO and probably don't even a disc drive in their computer.
HDR? Lossless scaling? Special K? What like the breakfast cereal? I don't even have a grasp of what any of that is and I play games and fiddle with my computer, you think Joe Normalfag cares?
If every computer had Linux preinstalled then all the normiecattle would barely notice. The only people who would care are ironically the ones that fall into the middle-ground of being an enthusiast about stuff on computers, but not wanting to fiddle with their computer itself to fix things or get something cutting-edge working, and those people could more likely install Windows themselves without that much issue.