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What problems does Linux have to overcome to get more users (programming.dev)

submitted 2 months ago by cm0002@programming.dev to c/linux@programming.dev

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Games on Linux are great now this is why I fully moved to Linux. Is the the work place Pc's market improving.

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Windows was never the default in classrooms in the 80's, that was Apple. First with the Apple II.

Windows didn't even exist until 1985 and wasn't widely adopted until 3.0/3.1 in the 90s.

Windows 386 in the late 80s was widely considered to be a joke:

https://youtu.be/noEHHB6rnMI

[–] Vintor@retrolemmy.com 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for that comment! And it's always the same: the people with a historical perspective that doesn't match the popular opinion get downvoted for spreading knowledge.

[–] BJ_and_the_bear@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

To go on a bit of a tangent here, Lemmy lets you hide scores on posts. I've had that set for a while and it's nice to not get that bias before reacting to a post

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Pretty sure that CBM, especially the Commodore Pet, was the default in classrooms in the 80s not Apple.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

While the PET was the first computer I ever used, we only had 4 of them (and only 1 with a tape drive! Hope you type fast!)

Compared to entire rooms of Apple IIs.

https://hackeducation.com/2015/02/25/kids-cant-wait-apple

[–] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I hit first grade in 80 and never saw anything but Apple... At least until college

[–] Chakravanti@monero.town 1 points 2 months ago

Windows...in the late 80s was widely considered to be a joke

Nothing has changed.

Monopoly was & is the same joke.

Every fucking shopping concrete labels anything pop over it for the same delusional humor about thinking that not-paper is real any less than the any Mani Mani.