In all seriousness it’s very exciting, I just don’t need to see the same information worded 20 different ways from random clickbait sites lol

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    The vast majority of people use a web browser, an office suite, an image viewer, a video player, and maybe some games. They’ll use whatever OS came free with the machine, or whatever they can get a friend / relative to install for them.

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      Most people have at least one other app that most people don’t use, that they use religiously, and has little UI foibles they don’t want to change. For some, it’s a native-app E-mail client they’re familiar with where they have 20-year-old messages backed up. For others, it’s a photo management app.

      It often doesn’t matter if AltWinMintbuntuXYZ has those capabilities. If it doesn’t handle them in the exact same way, it’s an anxiety-producing shift.

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      whatever they can get a friend / relative to install for them.

      This is a fairly rare amount of adventurism. Unless the computer won’t come up anymore and a friend/relative will fix it for free.

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        It usually happens when they buy from a respectable company, so the machine doesn’t come with a free (pirated) Windows preinstalled.