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[–] 7566198? ago 

I think you mean healthy competition. A capitalistic monopoly is still capitalism, and it blows.

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[–] 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.

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[–] lmkevin ago 

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.

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[–] 7566929? ago 

Yes, and progress is being made. It is however stifled by the lack of understanding and initiative by the average user. Unfortunately, the majority of recent effort by MS was not to increase support, but to forcefully indoctrinate their users and exploit their lack of understanding with the windows 10 update bullshit. Had they put those resources into a better product.... well I guess they wouldn’t be Microsoft then. :(
It is then up to the aware to continue to support those who work tirelessly for quality computing.