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| ▲ | liquid_thyme 11 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Since this exodus (year of the linux desktop has been promised every year since 1998) has not yet happened, there is likely an actual reason (or several) that people choose to stay on Windows. I use both, but prefer linux to stay behind the scenes on my servers. Windows has been a solved problem for me for the past couple of decades. Here's a random 100 day uptime screenshot that I found from 2017, https://imgur.com/a/PRp9L50. These days I usually shutdown more often to not waste power, and my NVMe makes bootups instant anyway. |
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| ▲ | coldtea 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| >What moat does MS still have to prevent an exodus to Linux anyway? Billions of installed seats, a huge corporate offering, a mature full-spectrum developer ecosystem, instant familiarity for billions, and working drivers for everything (which every vendor builds with their OS in mind). no stupid "you're using the wrong distro" recommendations to fix issues either... |
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| ▲ | dotancohen 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I'm a LibreOffice user who recently had to use Excel. Most things I was able to figure out, but two things really stood out as problematic with Excel. First, the keyboard shortcuts have no mnemonic. It's just random letters. No way to actually remember them. Second, there was no way to have the row and column of the current cell highlighted. This made it difficult to find where I was - very important not to screw that up on a PCBA BOM. I've not found any objective UI problem with LibreOffice Calc. It's not perfect, but it is intuitive and feels like the people who wrote it, use it. |
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| ▲ | thaumasiotes 11 hours ago | parent [-] | | > two things really stood out as problematic with Excel. > First, the keyboard shortcuts have no mnemonic. It's just random letters. No way to actually remember them. That is no more a problem than the fact that there is no mnemonic to remind you what "chaos" means in English. Shortcuts are there to be convenient to use, not convenient to describe. |
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| ▲ | andrewflnr 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > ChatGPT can guide you through any scenario in seconds for free? Does this actually work? I'm just thinking of the people who refuse to learn from an in-person demonstration, much less a written description. But maybe enough of that level of incompetence is filtered out by the time you're doing interesting things with spreadsheets... (Not that I'm opposed to people mass-abandoning Microsoft, just trying to be realistic about my hopes.) |
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| ▲ | wolvesechoes 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > What moat does MS still have to prevent an exodus to Linux anyway? There are no enthusiastic Windows users constantly telling you how much superior it is, and how easy it is to write your own drivers in 2026. |
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| ▲ | reverius42 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Claude Code or OpenAI Codex can even write working device drivers for your hardware these days. https://vladimir.varank.in/notes/2026/02/freebsd-brcmfmac/ |
