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The only few reason I know so far is software availability, like adobe software, and Microsoft suite. Is there more of major reasons that I missed?

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[โ€“] Lusamommy@alien.top 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This. A huge problem I've found in the FOSS community is that people are often somewhat hostile to making things user friendly. It's a sort of elitism, really. There's a middle ground to be had between apple's walled garden, and there being no barriers against something running rm -rf / and fucking you entirely. Like yeah, it's a bit annoying when the .exe from someone you absolutely trust throws a "this file might be harmful" in windows, but the alternative is your grandma who doesn't understand shit about computers getting ass fucked by every random piece of malware.

[โ€“] maegul@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago

Yea, and for me there's a clear engineering virtue to be aimed for here ... where your systems have smooth and easily accessed grades of increasing complexity and control within a coherent system.