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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Eh, I switched. I switched all of my lab's computers, too, and my PhD students have remarked a few different times that Linux is pretty cool. It might snowball.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

I don’t think Linux will displace Windows meaningfully any time soon, but I do think people underestimate the fact that most people don’t install their own OSs. They get people like you to do it for them.