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Discussion on: Linux Desktop Is Failing, Why so, The Myths, and the Solution.

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I agree.

The answer of why Windows wins in the desktops is simple, but many don't want to accept it, is because people don't care!, 90% of the people don't give a crap of their OS, I've been using Linux/BSD for 10+ years and other users often talks like if everyone where suffering Windows but poor them can't escape.
But no, most people are not suffering because of Windows, the OS they are using is not a concern to them, as simple as that, they are not deeply concern about their OS, most of them don't even know what an OS is and don't care, that is fine. Most of us are not deeply concerned about what kind of tire car uses, not caring much about our diet, some even exercise or health unless is in jeopardy, we all have our interest and our priorities; the OS is not one of them. As simple as that, is easier to move from 1 Windows version to the next than to move to Linux, and Linux can't don anything to solve that, only becoming a clone of Windows would, and nobody wants that, in fact when moving from one version of Windows to the next has been "harder" like with Win8, we saw extra people moving to Linux in an amount probably related to the extra difficulty of Win8.

People use FB and Instagram and the little loss of adoption has been only because they are not "fashionable" enough, not because of privacy concerns, people, don't care. Windows tracks you, of course, just like FB, Twitter, Instagram, and most of the sites even users of Dev make, adding trackers and unnecessary cookies. People still use them because.. (drum rolls) people don't care.

Why open formats are not widely used? is because the icons are not pretty enough?, is because the name of the extensions are not similar to closed formats enough? people blaming low adoption on the desktop to "fragmentation", to "too many choices", and the like, like people debating if ogg lost to mp3 because the extension looked too much like "egg" or the lack of "m's" because people like the letter "m" right? what if we change it to mgg? while others discuss about why is because ogg doesn't have any numbers and debating if we should change it to m4g or m5g (although maybe the g's are the problem)...