Mint is probably around 0.05% of desktop/laptop users.

I think root comment is looking at the overall picture of what all customers can get for their money, and see it getting worse.

This wasn’t mentioned, but it’s a new thing for everyone to experience, since the general trend of computer hardware is it gets cheaper and more powerful over time. Maybe not exponentially any more, but at least linearly cheaper and more powerful.

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OGEnthusiast 17 hours ago | parent [-]

> I think root comment is looking at the overall picture of what all customers can get for their money, and see it getting worse.

A $999 MacBook Air today is vastly better than the same $999 MacBook Air 5 years ago (and even more so once you count inflation).

	▲	chii 17 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The OP is not looking at the static point (of the price of that item), but the trend - ala, the derivative of the price vs quality. It was on a steep upward incline, and now it's flattening.