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by Fargren 5466 days ago
-The name inspires a lot of trust to a layperson

-There's a lot of software with no equivalent in other OSs (including computer games, which are a selling point for a lot of people, and Visual Studio)

-Many companies are reluctant to change software they've been using for any length of time. Changing the OS is specially unlikely.

-It's really not that bad an OS...