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There are very good reasons people run [Windows] rather than change to [Linux]:
-# It's what their employer or school has taught them and they don't want/need to learn another [OperatingSystem].[1
]
-# Games, which
often only run on windows (
[FirstPersonShooter]s usually being the exception)
-# Even though [Windows] has
a cost, they
already have it. Changing to Linux can cost far more than upgrading.[2]
-# They need to run an application written for [Windows] that is not portable; commonly specialist (often [Proprietary]) applications.[3
]
-# Some hardware (mostly
the very latest stuff) will only work under
Windows. Hardware manufacturers usually do not
provide drivers for other operating systems.
(Although this is changing
)
+# It's what their employer or school has taught them and they don't want/need to learn another [OperatingSystem]. (
[Microsoft
] and [Apple] consciously exploit this by offering free computers to many educational institutions.)
+# Games they want to play
often only run on [Windows];
[FirstPersonShooter]s usually being the exception.
+# Even though [Windows] comes at
a cost, many people
already have it. Changing to [
Linux]
can cost far more than upgrading, at least in terms of time investment
.
+# They need to run an application written for [Windows] that is not portable; commonly specialist (often [Proprietary]) applications. F.ex, businesses have often be using some accounting package written in
[VisualBasic
] or [VisualC++] for years; obviously, Unix versions of these applications do not exist and with
the business being unwilling/unable to migrate, they are "locked in" to [
Windows]
.
+# Though this is slowly changing, hardware manufactures rarely
provide [Linux]
drivers for their latest products
(much less ones for less common [Free] systems such as one of the [BSD] flavours
). People who want/need/would like to use these have no choice but [Windows].
See also IssuesWithWindows and WellThoughtOutReasonsToRunLinux
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-[1] This is the reason why [Microsoft] and [Apple] (used to?) provide free computers to schools. They know that that first 'exposure' in school to their product(s) can guarantee future customers.
-[2] That is debatable :D
-[3] Example: ''I have seen a very large number of accounting packages that appear to have been 'slapped together' in [VisualBasic]/[VisualC++]. They will obviously only work under Windows. The companies that produce these packages (in my experience) never provide Unix versions of their software. Once a business has purchased such an accounting package and has used it for a few years, the business will effectively have been 'locked' into using Windows - [MarcelVanDeSteeg]''
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