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First RCS now this, today has been wild

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[โ€“] Giooschi@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As long as many important games fall into that 10% many gamers won't consider Linux.

Not to mention Adobe/Office/CAD suites that will prevent others from switching.

And finally most pcs are sold with windows preinstalled and the vast majority of people don't even know that other OS even exist.

[โ€“] ICastFist@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Also a lot of high end medical equipment. Some stuff will only work/communicate with Windows XP, even today, for instance.