[phito]

Who do you mean by "we" ? Even if all HN users would stop using windows, it would be barely noticeable for Microsoft...

[gumballindie]

Now if hn users start making casual apps work on linux by contributing to wine and proton that may change.

[LoganDark]

Linux won't be a true desktop operating system until it can run MikuMikuDance

[gumballindie]

With HDR on nonetheless.

[LoganDark]

MikuMikuDance is ancient but somehow manages to use Direct3D features that WINE doesn't implement properly. Maybe Proton does now, but I haven't checked in a couple years.

[bravetraveler]

Just add gamescope, it supposedly does HDR

I have a terrible display, haven't bothered - like four zones or something silly

[LoganDark]

I have some random monitor from China based on a laptop panel and "HDR mode" seems to mean something along the lines of "without the sRGB EOTF". However, the software support for HDR in Windows 11 is so bad that I just use the sRGB mode instead, which does a really good job.

[GoToRO]

Plus MS has a lot of corporate deals. They don't care about the average user that much.

[mhitza]

And government deals. That's why in 2023 children still learn basic office skills on Microsoft's offering. US might be different because I know Chromebooks are popular over there in education.

In Romania this was a big deal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_licensing_corruption... , in other countries maybe they never got caught. I doubt that bribing, as a "strategy", was only used in one country.

[daef]

maybe enough hn users could get their companies stop using windows (but i guess the sysadmins are on slashdot iirc)

[jabroni_salad]

I'm the IT guy. It's the LOB apps that require windows, not the company. Stop selling us windows-exclusive software and we can talk. Yeah, it's really cool what you can do with wine and proton these days. Can I do that to a bank teller's computer and expect the vendor to answer the phone if something goes wrong?

and honestly, windows is pretty durable these days. 'desktop stuff' is less than 5% of my timesheet and I really do have better things to be doing with my time than trying to achieve the current baseline functionality with noncooperative methods.

[o1y32]

I don't know which world you live in, but I am pretty confident that there aren't that many HN users in my software company, even among developers

Even so people (HN or not) won't give up their productivity tool their daily work relies on because of some nuisance or really, ideal. I have seen comments where people are so pissed off by the aggressive ads in Windows that they switched to Linux or Mac, but the number is going to be very small.

[self_awareness]

Unfortunately, HN crowd suffers from the "someone, please, do something" syndrome.

(Also: "Here is how the law should look like: we all should get a raise")

[yanellena]

Realistically what are the alternatives to Microsoft 365 with the same level of functionality?

[dimmke]

The problem is, Microsoft is entrenched with everybody but software engineers and server administrators.

Even “IT people” - their primary domain of skill is working with Windows etc…

And Microsoft has leveraged this dominance to coerce companies into their cloud services too.

Microsoft is a lich, it can’t be killed. It just has to be managed around.

[permo-w]

I would be surprised if that were true. there are some very influential people on HN

[FirmwareBurner]

Influential to who? Most avenge joes don't even know about HN, let alone the "celebrities" here. At the end of the day it's just another echo chamber.

[permo-w]

it's influential due to the influential people on HN. your "average Joe" is irrelevant to that

[lotsofpulp]

I doubt anyone in the world is more influential than Microsoft Excel.