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What is it with r/pcmasterrace and anti-Linuxism?
lemmy.mlWhat is it with r/pcmasterrace and anti-Linuxism? - Lemmyhttps://redd.it/v8l8vi [https://redd.it/v8l8vi] These people keep bringing up
“mArKeT sHaRE” 1. Linux is free. How would it get market share? 2. It’s quite
difficult to get an accurate “market share” since user-agents can be faked.
EDIT: I wonder if Microsoft are making anti-Linux accounts to try and hamper
Linux.
Well duh. “PC” means “Windows”, obviously.
sigh
“PC” means “Desktop”
Actually, if we’re nit-picking, it means “Personal Computer”, but the colloquial meaning has shifted somewhat since the good old IBM times to first mean desktop computers (as opposed to laptops), and then to mean non-Apple computers (including laptops), which for most people means “a computer that runs Windows.”
Which is the basis of my heavy sigh.
>and then to mean non-Apple computers
I call Macs PCs to this day becouse of those ads