A comment he made 12 years ago and look where we are: Microsoft still overwhelmingly dominating the OS market, with Linux only making small gains.

How many more decades do we have to wait?

Then there's the part where techheads & enthusiasts who build their own systems and tinker with alternate OS's aren't remotely the majority of the market. Until Joe Average User does those things, stuff that interests the niche enthusiast market will never "take over" or "end" anything.

引用自 datCookie：

A comment he made 12 years ago and look where we are: Microsoft still overwhelmingly dominating the OS market, with Linux only making small gains.

How many more decades do we have to wait?

Watch Gabe’s entire presentation.

引用自 drsxzgsa：

引用自 datCookie：

A comment he made 12 years ago and look where we are: Microsoft still overwhelmingly dominating the OS market, with Linux only making small gains.

How many more decades do we have to wait?

Watch Gabe’s entire presentation.

I don't really need to. Until Microsoft ♥♥♥♥ the bed, their OS will dominate the market. Linux isn't going to rise until more people take an interest in it. I certainly haven't and likely never will.

Linux has crossed the 3% threshold
https://psteamproxy.yuanyoumao.com/hwsurvey/
Microsoft's days are numbered.
3% / 12 years is 0.08333 percent per year.
Linux is a slow but unstoppable force.

引用自 datCookie：

A comment he made 12 years ago and look where we are: Microsoft still overwhelmingly dominating the OS market, with Linux only making small gains.

How many more decades do we have to wait?

This will be the year of the Linux Desktop!
This will be the year of the Linux Desktop!
This will be the year of the Linux Desktop!
This will be the year of the Linux Desktop!
This will be the year of the Linux Desktop!
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This will be the year of the Linux Desktop!
This will be the year of the Linux Desktop!
This will be the year of the Linux Desktop!

引用自 datCookie：

A comment he made 12 years ago and look where we are: Microsoft still overwhelmingly dominating the OS market, with Linux only making small gains.

How many more decades do we have to wait?

This is the attitude thats inside major companies like Microsoft that lead to them completely failing on smartphones despite basically inventing them, they refused to take it seriously and improve their products when competition came about.

引用自 tyl0413：

引用自 datCookie：

A comment he made 12 years ago and look where we are: Microsoft still overwhelmingly dominating the OS market, with Linux only making small gains.

How many more decades do we have to wait?

This is the attitude thats inside major companies like Microsoft that lead to them completely failing on smartphones despite basically inventing them, they refused to take it seriously and improve their products when competition came about.

100% get that. But there just isn't competition in the OS market right now. Microsoft is far too embedded, from businesses to people like me who don't want to run something like Linux on our PCs.

引用自 datCookie：

A comment he made 12 years ago and look where we are: Microsoft still overwhelmingly dominating the OS market, with Linux only making small gains.

How many more decades do we have to wait?

To be fair those gains are stacking. The main reason windows ratains dominance is quite frankly because it's grandfathered in at this point. Annd Linux doesn'tt have a mega corp conducting shady back room deals with retailers .

WHat's worth noting is that this sort of thing builds with momentum. The more people that switch to linux the more people that will switch to linux. Most people shy away because it has a rep as being tech nical complicated and limited in what it can do and what software can run. and then there's the drivers.

These things have all been addressed over time but the myth still prevails.
This is sorta why I see steam/Valve being a great step forward. They are showing that you can game on linu.

Doesn;'t help that ms is struggling to release a WIndows version that people actually want. and they basically decide to release a windows version whenever they need a revenue boost.

Windows 11 and 12 may be the tipping point though. The hardware limitations are a big issue. I've heard more and more companies and government institutuions seriously considering linux.

I can't even install Linux the instructions don't work.

引用自 tyl0413：

引用自 datCookie：

A comment he made 12 years ago and look where we are: Microsoft still overwhelmingly dominating the OS market, with Linux only making small gains.

How many more decades do we have to wait?

This is the attitude thats inside major companies like Microsoft that lead to them completely failing on smartphones despite basically inventing them, they refused to take it seriously and improve their products when competition came about.

MS has nothing to do with inventing cell phones, MS is great at being copy cats and or buying companies that they did not buy because they only own some of the shares which means they own nothing. And as far as dominating HARDLY! There is more OS systems out there other then windows and linux.