Might be tempted to view it through a housing & transportation comparison too. Someone who lives in a too-big house, drives a pickup to the office and complains about expenses and how annoying it is to sit in traffic might not be particularly interested to hear from someone who lives in a comfortable flat, rarely has to go more than 15 minutes by bike and does a lot of bike maintenance themselves, leaving a lot of time & money available for fun.
Big houses and SUVs and pickups have their place, but investing in them because it’s normal and I want to be normal is likely to lead to a lot of complaints.
That said, Kids These Days seem to be treating phones and tablets as their default OS. There’s some push in workplaces to use cheaper laptops like Chromebooks if they can get away with it, which with the rise of webapps is increasingly likely. Personally I wouldn’t be very surprised if Windows users in the future can be grouped into people who need:
something that’s barely not chromeos
something more like a desktop xbox os for gamers, and
something that’s kind of a platform for specialized native non-game apps (which may or may not be legacy stuff)
Might be tempted to view it through a housing & transportation comparison too. Someone who lives in a too-big house, drives a pickup to the office and complains about expenses and how annoying it is to sit in traffic might not be particularly interested to hear from someone who lives in a comfortable flat, rarely has to go more than 15 minutes by bike and does a lot of bike maintenance themselves, leaving a lot of time & money available for fun.
Big houses and SUVs and pickups have their place, but investing in them because it’s normal and I want to be normal is likely to lead to a lot of complaints.
That said, Kids These Days seem to be treating phones and tablets as their default OS. There’s some push in workplaces to use cheaper laptops like Chromebooks if they can get away with it, which with the rise of webapps is increasingly likely. Personally I wouldn’t be very surprised if Windows users in the future can be grouped into people who need: