I mostly only go by bus or train for a few days here or there. That still feels like imposing a burden unless I camp, which I normally only do in the summer.
Many of the local places I go to have the same problems though, seasonally overran with tourists, all homes converted to airb+b , crowds out the local economy and drive out the local people (to the benefit of the local landowners). Ideally there'd be limits on what fraction of housing can be used as short term.
But I think generally regulation of land use and property rental prices could be beneficial - another unpopular opinion. "Oh no, we can't trust the oiks not to appoint despotic regulators, nor can we hold them to account, so it's much better have a elite landowning upper class instread".
That's not something that I'd think is any of my business to want or not want.
I can't really answer the last question, I'd need to know a lot more about all thendifferent things these microsoft users are doing; what're the alternatives; and, how disruptive might the transition be. On balance, given the uncertainties, I'd have to say probably not.
I mean if i stopped using Microsoft entirely (i.e. at work) I'd have to find a new job, probably one I'm less experienced at. And likely I'd end up working for a bigger bunch of scumbags. Likely no net gain and a load of botheration in the meanwhile.
Also i might miss the regular BSOD inspired tea breaks . . .
Haha market cap, market share , they're still all about selling stuff so dont really apply./
Market share is normally measured in share of revenue in most industries.
There are lots of webpages, tutorials, youtubes and stuff like that for these people already. I'm sure they can also pay companies like canonical for more dedicated support if that's what they need.
If you want to welcome people, go ahead and do it, nothing stopping you. Create the webpage or forum or youtube channel, distribution, or write the book whatever is missing. Just make sure to moderate it to remove CLI based answers and block users like me.
"I" exist and I'm sure I'm never going to be part of your "we". The current situation of linux home user base seems just fine to me without pandering to a load of windows users. I think you should work on your desired subculture and keep me out if it.
Leave me out of it - i can stay over here under my bridge in linuxmemes wearing my new programming socks.
For the home market maybe you can look at valve and steamdeck or something as an example of an acessible linux sub-culture. Valve doesn't maintain and support that for free though. It'd be interesting to know how many full time employees they have on steamdeck OS just for the one device (and maybe a few gaming perpherals) and one GUI. Then expand that to all esoteric hardware and all GUIs . . .
I guess chromeOS and a few forks of that is another similar example - i think that's still linux kernel based - some limitations on hardware i think.
What I'd actually like to see is B2B growth (for user ) - but I don't think linux will ever be bought by employers like mine - I know how the procurement department operates - and I can't see that changing. There are plenty of people who don't need my support trying business sales, redhat, canonical, suse etc and more power to them - but microsoft didn't get big in B2B by being usable, nor by nor having "no CLI", nor by having a supportive community to home users. They just packaged it in a way that ticked all the boxes for the corpo procurement types - though most B2B customers do need their own dedicated user support.
Laptops run off batteries a lot of the time - so compromising outright performance - full instruction set - for battery life will be attractive for many laptop users who use it on the go.
I'm no apple fanatic, I'd never get one, but I do see the appeal of those apple laptops.
I'm sure x86 could get closer on the performance to battery tradeoff if they wanted to; but I bet they'd be looking to price up at the apple level for that.
I think it's pretty genderless, just because I've heard enough women use it about women or mixed groups. You can always use his surname instead, just update a bit to modern pronounciation, call everyone: Fuck, Fucks, Fuckers. I think that solves it.
Calling everyone "homo" is another good one.
Some languages like French use "ils" for mixed groups (same as male groups). But others like German use "sie" (same as "she/her"). Plurals in german, I think, usually become feminine (die Manner) - although German has many other gender-bending cases that I can't begin to understand. I'm sure there's lots of other languages that have a million other features/inconsistencies/expressions of patriarchal domination like this.
Fucking terminal, in many of them ctrl+c and ctrl+v don't even work.
and don't get me started on how they implement ctrl+z. I'm waiting for a terminal to have the ms-office ribbon menu bar before I'll use it.
Finding a loophole or an inconsistency about grammar doesn't prove that language shouldn't make sense to at least two people.
I mean did anyone ever actually say that to communicate that actual meaning? If not then its not relevant at all.
But even if someone did say that with the intent to communicate (something about bison?), language or grammar, especially as it emerges from fallible human communication is allowed to make mistakes.
That's why we have words like "misunderstanding". It's also why meanings and patterns of use LITERALLY change over time.
But whether misunderstood or unintelligible or encrypted it's fundamental purpose is still to communicate.
It could be a form of bundling, tacit veritcal integratation, magin squeeze , price discrimination, tie-ins etc.
Various tricks oligopolistic companies use to prevent competition from bidding prices down - trying to extract a bit of extra profit.
The harm is that people are paying more than they might - or for extra features they cant opt out of than they would in a free or open market. Likely the harm is very diffuse and no one person is all that bothered to be paying 10% more or whatever, but it all adds up.
Anti-trust regulators are so weak they don't really have to try though. TBF it's very hard to prove this stuff in court even if there was a political will to improve competition to benefit consumers.
I'd go basic debian .
Install flatpak and flathub to get any packages that are too far out of date or might get so.
Any derivative or ubuntu derivative just sees like unnecessary extra dependencies to me.
Debian gives i think a wider choice of desktop environment than any of the derivatives on install, but I think they're all much of a muchness really. Most of the DEs have the "Click something, window opens" feature.
Maybe they emphasise "children" to encourage more of the current adult generation to sacrifice themselves.
And to manage expectations of when the benefits arise.
I mostly only go by bus or train for a few days here or there. That still feels like imposing a burden unless I camp, which I normally only do in the summer.
Many of the local places I go to have the same problems though, seasonally overran with tourists, all homes converted to airb+b , crowds out the local economy and drive out the local people (to the benefit of the local landowners). Ideally there'd be limits on what fraction of housing can be used as short term.
But I think generally regulation of land use and property rental prices could be beneficial - another unpopular opinion. "Oh no, we can't trust the oiks not to appoint despotic regulators, nor can we hold them to account, so it's much better have a elite landowning upper class instread".