Almost nobody “chooses” an OS. What needs to happen for wide-spread adoption is for first time computer users to be presented with something running Linux.
Microsoft understood this, that’s why Windows has been the default in classrooms since the 80s.
Almost nobody “chooses” an OS. What needs to happen for wide-spread adoption is for first time computer users to be presented with something running Linux.
Microsoft understood this, that’s why Windows has been the default in classrooms since the 80s.
Windows was never the default in classrooms in the 80’s, that was Apple. First with the Apple II.
Windows didn’t even exist until 1985 and wasn’t widely adopted until 3.0/3.1 in the 90s.
Windows 386 in the late 80s was widely considered to be a joke:
https://youtu.be/noEHHB6rnMI