Archived What's Pushing More and More Windows Users to Linux? (news.softpedia.com)
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[–] user9713 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago (edited ago)
This is all you need to know about who's migrating
^ lol no normie cares about that.
There we go: power users (or people who don't mind getting their hands a bit dirty).
I'm rooting for Linux, and I think the best way forward is for companies, like Valve and AMD, to continue investing in it. And these companies have a lot of incentive to do so because there's a clear divide between them and their competitors (Microsoft / Intel / nVidia). This is especially true for AMD.
But I don't think it's quite there, yet. And we need to see a lot more investment. Right now, Valve has a gaming OS, but nothing that clearly replaces Windows (at least the last time I checked, Valve OS behaves more like an XBOX or PS4 OS).
I can also see other companies like Mozilla, Opera, and Brave joining the fight because of Chromium (Mozilla because it's a competitor to Google, but Brave / Opera because Google is making it so that certain features only work on Chrome, despite Brave / Opera being built on Chromium).
I'm really hoping that we see these companies working together and they come out on top.
[–] Wahaha 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
I never thought of Mozilla (Firefox) to be a competitor of Google (Chrome). They way I see their relationship, Mozilla is an employee of Google. Last time I checked pretty much all the money Firefox earns is paid by Google and if you see them in that kind of relationship, all the bad decisions that made Firefox worse with every new version since the release of Chrome make a lot more sense.
Opera was sold to the Chinese, wasn't it? I'm not expecting much of that brand anymore.
[–] user9713 ago (edited ago)
I've also wondered why they remove certain features that draw people to Firefox. I still think it's the better browser in terms of a browsing experience, but it's losing that edge by trying to become like Chrome.
And yeah, you're right; it does make a lot of sense.