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[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But I want a mass exodus.

Then why are you investing so much energy telling everyone why there shouldn't be one?

[–] MudMan@fedia.io -4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I never said there shouldn't be one, I said there are good reasons for most people to not migrate that need to be resolved before they will be one.

I don't think it's annoying to have a million distros that each have their own quirks and problems with my system because I don't want people to move out of Windows, I think it's annoying because it IS, and it's one of several reasons preventing me and many others from moving out of the corporate walled gardens.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

You sure fooled me. Your whole attitude in this thread is anger at the simple truth: the vast majority of computing done by end users is done in a web browser, and therefore many people could switch oses and barely notice any negative impact. How much irreplaceable desktop software are you running that shapes this perspective?

I'm a power user by all measures and i still typically have no more than 2-3 apps running outside my browser. And even most of those are cross platform apps. It seems like you're time traveling from 2005 with this take.