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Every time I see such an argument it means that the person using it probably overestimates their expertise. I tried to switch one time and switched. Knowing nothing.
I was 16 and I wasn't computer-savvy. It was 12 years ago, Linux users on the Web these days love to talk how easier it's become, in my opinion it's become harder, but that's off topic.
Or there may be necessities you can't fulfill with Linux, but that's not what you are claiming.
Give me a specific example. And of the tone of your question too - a community is not a drop-in replacement for paid support obviously, so if there was something of the "I need" kind, possibly with that "it's the OS' problem and not my hands" opinion in the package, those comments would be justified.
Because it's an uphill battle against monopolies. PCs mostly come with Windows preinstalled. Users mostly use the OS preinstalled. Considering that, 4% rate means that it's more usable than MacOS. Just repeating known truths.
Well, sometimes it is, and sometimes people expect something reality doesn't deliver.
Yellow card for ageism, ha-ha.
Oh, so a piece of hardware the vendor of which didn't care about Linux support. How is this an OS problem?
I obviously had that too, but I don't get why'd you be pissed at Linux and its community if it's a device driver problem.
OK, so that community we are talking about sometimes hallucinates when it comes to problems unsolvable. I had that with Windows too.
In your example the problem is with the vendor of the device.
Yes, the same correct argument.
I've already guessed you think that, only you don't give any arguments supporting your opinion.
You've yourself said there's no official driver, so the entirety of the described problem is with the hardware vendor.
Windows doesn't even support browsers, because nobody ported Vimb to it, yet it sells.
That's how your opinion looks, some piece of hardware without a Linux driver (drivers for Windows are, of course, made by hardware vendors) not working is somehow Linux' fault.
I agree it's a Linux problem, but it's vendor's fault. Like if someone drops a turd on your head, it's their fault and your problem.
That last sentence made me laugh out loud and it's spot on. The amount of reverse engineering or getting drivers to work anyway that happens on Linux is already mind boggling.
If the vendor doesn't care, that's just what it is.
You have denied it, not refuted it.
You don't know shit about market forces either, and I'm ancap, LOL.
If a ride to get Smashburger costs more in time and money than McDonalds. Or if I have certain health problems and there's no diet Smashburger, but there's something in McDonalds. Or many other examples.
The first example looks especially fitting if, say, McDonalds got the building with some special municipal permission and Smashburger couldn't just buy something in similarly available place.
You if you need it. Nobody's going to do what you need for you. Adoption is not the only or the primary goal.
You can respond with thanking me on your knees for taking time to explain how you look and not asking if you are fucking high.
I'm not selling anything to you, bro.