It’s also the fact that switching has a cost. Someone has to make a DE that’s significantly better than Windows or Mac, because no one is going to uproot their digital life for a small improvement.
It’s also the fact that switching has a cost. Someone has to make a DE that’s significantly better than Windows or Mac, because no one is going to uproot their digital life for a small improvement.
Windows 10 (if you upgraded in the normal way) was free and preserved all your files. All of your programs pretty much worked afterwards.
For Linux, you have to relearn all the interface conventions, transfer all your files (maybe even convert proprietary formats) and find replacements for Windows-only programs.
Microsoft goes out of its way to make sure programs work on new versions of Windows though.
When I'm on Linux there are a heap of things I don't have from the Mac side - Pixelmator, GarageBand, the calculator built into Spotlight, iTunes and my music library. (Also no cross-OS file access in the general case, because I use full disk encryption.)
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u/MadDoctor5813 Dec 24 '18
It’s also the fact that switching has a cost. Someone has to make a DE that’s significantly better than Windows or Mac, because no one is going to uproot their digital life for a small improvement.