I suspect Microsoft will have fumbled hard enough to allow Apple and Linux to start chipping away at their desktop monopoly.
It looks like they're trying to ease up on the enshitification just enough to prevent that from happening, and they just might succeed. They've been at this since Windows 8 which was almost 14 years ago. Normies have an insane tolerance for anti-user crapware.
I really hope Linux can stop being a miserable piece of incompatible shit, but the last twenty years didn't get them there, so another eight won't do much either I fear.
It sounds like they've made great strides over the past couple years even in gaming which was always their Achilles heel. The only insurmountable obstacle is anti-cheat spyware in AAA slop and Linux shutting that shit down is a feature, not a bug. I suspect the best bet is to get a beginner friendly distro and bite the bullet on the learning curve. It will probably never be normie friendly since you have to install the OS yourself and completely eliminating the need for command line stuff is a long way away. I'd be more intimidated by the command line stuff if I didn't already have to do it in Windows after they removed GUI options post Windows 7. At least Linux would have community support for that kind of thing instead of forcing me to go around digging up old Reddit/forum comments to solve the problem.
Debian just got subverted by "electing" a poojeeta who was the only candidate who submitted her candidacy 2 minutes prior to the deadline and the electoral devs only had a 33% turnout with barely over 50% of thr voting pool.
I'd say their Achilles heel isn't gaming. Gaming is a symptom of their fatal flaw, which is that absolutely nothing can ever be expected to work out of the box. There's always some driver issue or some obscure configuration that's set up a weird way, or the compatibility layer doesn't translate that bit of functionality, or a lack of alternative software with actual functional parity...
They may have gotten better, but they're still orders of magnitude behind where they need to be in order to get any sort of adoption outside of the enthusiastic autist sphere.
It looks like they're trying to ease up on the enshitification just enough to prevent that from happening, and they just might succeed. They've been at this since Windows 8 which was almost 14 years ago. Normies have an insane tolerance for anti-user crapware.
It sounds like they've made great strides over the past couple years even in gaming which was always their Achilles heel. The only insurmountable obstacle is anti-cheat spyware in AAA slop and Linux shutting that shit down is a feature, not a bug. I suspect the best bet is to get a beginner friendly distro and bite the bullet on the learning curve. It will probably never be normie friendly since you have to install the OS yourself and completely eliminating the need for command line stuff is a long way away. I'd be more intimidated by the command line stuff if I didn't already have to do it in Windows after they removed GUI options post Windows 7. At least Linux would have community support for that kind of thing instead of forcing me to go around digging up old Reddit/forum comments to solve the problem.
its easier than ever to use linux now ai can turn human requests into lines of code
Debian just got subverted by "electing" a poojeeta who was the only candidate who submitted her candidacy 2 minutes prior to the deadline and the electoral devs only had a 33% turnout with barely over 50% of thr voting pool.
Yes, she "won" with 17% of eligible voters.
I'd say their Achilles heel isn't gaming. Gaming is a symptom of their fatal flaw, which is that absolutely nothing can ever be expected to work out of the box. There's always some driver issue or some obscure configuration that's set up a weird way, or the compatibility layer doesn't translate that bit of functionality, or a lack of alternative software with actual functional parity...
They may have gotten better, but they're still orders of magnitude behind where they need to be in order to get any sort of adoption outside of the enthusiastic autist sphere.