[–] bikergang_accountant ago (edited ago)
Monopolies still have competition that they need to sqeeze out, except government induced monopolies. The two kinds behave very differently.
Also not a monopoly: https://www.statista.com/statistics/218089/global-market-share-of-windows-7/
The top player doesn't own over 90% of the market share making it easy for someone interested in not playing to have heard of the alternatives. And the second biggest doesn't have 90% of the remaining either.
Be warned though, according to those stats Linux has been loosing desktop support compared to our high of 2%. I blame Steam sucking. We need to fix that thing. It honestly doesn't work out of the box on most distros on most systems.
That and we need more linux specific software like parallel or like apache used to be.
That's what I mean. MS can dick around all they want and continue to make shitty products and not care about the customers. Meanwhile libreware developers continue to work their asses off for a good function program. As the public gets sick of MS nonsense, they switch to linux; slapping MS strait in the face and making them work harder to get their customers.
[–] Kleyno 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
SteamOS may not have taken off, but Linux as a gaming platform benefited from this drive immensely, for which I am grateful.