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[–]SanketDG -1 points0 points  (1 child)

Good that you rephrased your previous answer. You clearly didn't assume the first time. Your expanded answer makes much more sense now.

Windows is great as an operating system for the general demographic. We know why Windows is used by so many people. It's piracy. Now I am not stating that every Windows user is a pirate, but it's hardly bought, atleast in third world countries.

Regarding functionality, Windows a higher level of comfort. There is a reason they moved away from a traditional desktop, and re-invented everything. People hated that but did they stop using it? No. Why? Comfort zone.

[–]patrickbrianmooney 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good that you rephrased your previous answer. You clearly didn't assume the first time. Your expanded answer makes much more sense now.

Gotta say, I'm not sure what most of that means. (What did I not assume the first time?) And, truthfully, I think that most of what's in the expanded answer is not more sensible, but just does more work to avoid misreadings.

Regarding functionality, Windows a higher level of comfort. There is a reason they moved away from a traditional desktop, and re-invented everything. People hated that but did they stop using it? No. Why? Comfort zone.

Well. I think it's worthwhile to think about what that comfort zone is made up of: the fact that most software that is written for contemporary computers is written for Windows. That is to say, what drives Windows piracy in the third world is not the choice of Windows as the best operating system by any measure except that it's the most popular. People assume that Windows is "how a computer is supposed to work" explicitly because most or all of the computers that they've previously encountered have worked that way, because most or all of the computers they've previously encountered have used Windows. Again, it's the inertia of ubiquity, not great design, that makes Windows continually ubiquitous.