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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]
-# 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
-# They need to run an application written for [Windows] that is not portable; commonly specialist (often [Proprietary]) applications
+# 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 been 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] or wait for someone to write a driver for their hardware and OperatingSystem.
See also IssuesWithWindows and WellThoughtOutReasonsToRunLinux
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