>>510875639
>>510875684
Normies use whatever is packaged with the product they buy.
If laptops and desktops were sold with Linux on them you'd see a lot more use of it.
>But that happens
You have to dig and find it basically in a special circumstance. The big brands that sell in physical stores never have them displayed and on websites you have to dig. Any others that only sell Linux on their machines are esoteric brands.

>>509133614
We are already in one. Have been for a decade.
Modern wars are rarely fought with clear battle lines between the countries fighting them. It's all proxy war bullshit.
The American civil war that we are in right now is no different.
And much like the last civil war it is a group of elites fighting another group of elites and rallying support from the peasants to do so on their behalf.

I suspect there are more than two factions at play here as well

>>508787008
The infinite growth game and line must always go up every quarter is what drives this.
The fact of the matter is that the companies want to continue to sell products without requiring the money to make new products that are worth buying alone.
So you get planned obsolescence and make it prohibitively or perhaps impossible for repairs.

With video games this should be a no brainer.
>Make game.
>Sell game
>Make next game
>Sell next game.

But these game companies, the big ones at least, are risk adverse and for some reason need to dump half a billion dollars and 5 years to produce half-broken slop.
They want you to stop having access to older games so that you will be more likely to buy their newer games.

BECAUSE THEY CANT COMPETE. And it's funny because it's not just competition with other game companies it is competition with their own past products.