Inertia. The same reason companies are still running and maintaining COBOL programs. Not to mention it’s familiar to most of their users. Those of us that use Linux at home are a distinct minority.

Another rather big reason. Is that it’s backed by a company. There’s someone specific to go to if things go south. There are equivalents in the Linux world. Like red hat Enterprise linux. But then you lose a lot of the savings something like Linux offers. Granted you lose a lot of the hassle of anti-futures as well. That might start becoming a motivating issue soon enough.

On the whole people often in charge of Financial and procurement tend not to be very technically oriented. And want to go with the safest of the safest options in their perception whether or not it’s a good option.

And finally, in the business space there hasn’t been many companies selling and pushing systems pre-equipped with Linux for businesses to buy often. It’s getting better now. But it’s something you would only expect to see generally on the server side. Office wise its often just Dell HP or Lenovo business Towers all running Windows. But with companies like system 76, tuxedo, and framework offering for home users. You might start seeing more in business as well.

I have started switching my parents. Last year before all this really started getting crazy and I bought my mother a used HP elitebook laptop and set her up with Linux on it. Just to get her to test it out and use it. And replace her older laptops. There’s very little she does that actually depends on windows. Everything tends to be in the browser. There was only one odd application that’s odd even under windows. But it has an Android version that I got running with waydroid.

In the last month and I got my father a new used office PC that was about 10 Generations newer than what he had processor-wise. And set it up with Linux out of the box. He’s been enjoying using it it’s so much faster snappier and less spammy. And here this month when I have time. Getting my mother’s desktop PC converted over to dual boot at least with Linux as primary. I’ve had far fewer tech support issues since I’ve done it too.

Between system 76, framework, tuxedo, and a few other sellers. There are actually a few options now offering Linux out of the box. Next time I buy a PC it will likely be from one of them depending upon what I’m looking for. And if anyone asked me for recommendations they will be the only ones I will recommend. Apart from ordering used office machines and repurposing them LOL. Unless you want to do current gym Triple A games at 4K etc. You can get six generation i7 systems for around $100 and use graphic cards for 50 to 100. And play most games and have a great time. It’s actually kind of hilarious I have a couple of Verizon systems from the last 4 to 5 years. The system I spend more time on is a 6th generation i7 Lenovo business Tower. Largely because it’s running Linux and the others are running Windows.

It’s like they’re a company pretending to be another company, disguised as another company. Tropic Thunder all the way down.

Lol they certainly aren’t planning all this. None of them are that particularly bright. All this conspiratorial tone gives them far more credit than any of them have ever been due.

Blue Sky will not become a heavily monetized enshitified platform because of some Machiavellian conspiracy. It will become that. Because it is what un regulated capitalist structures must become. Hell even the regulated ones have a hard time not being that way.

Who did you think we were? This is who we’ve always been. They’re just getting comfortable taking the mask off again. Trust me, my grandmother and other family were put through the racist indian boarding schools. Common throughout the US and Canada. You know, the ones they keep finding mass graves on. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Just more subtle, less in your face.

Most people thought are too distracted with bread and circuses to care however.