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  • I would say an outstanding product markets itself

    Of course an outstanding product will spread via word-of-mouth… but as it turns out, word-of-mouth only does so much. I wouldn’t say word-of-mouth just “markets itself”. You’ll need some sort of critical mass before that really works out. There are plenty of good products out there that are not getting bought even if they’re better than the competitor, because the competitor has better marketing.






  • I recently switched to Linux, but the reason it took so long was primarily:

    1. Just getting the time to do it. I’m really busy these days and setting up a PC from scratch with all the stuff I need and how I want it to be takes a lot of time.
    2. Concerns about gaming, which turned out to be a complete non-issue. I can game completely fine and easily on Linux via Steam’s compatibility settings. I can even use it to install non-Steam games and launchers, like Battlenet.
    3. Concerns about stuff not “just working” and I will say, there are more small annoyances. Already had a few segfaults from KDE Plasma when waking from sleep which crashes all programs and leaves me with an empty desktop. We really collectively need to move away from memory-unsafe languages, but yea you just don’t get those sorts of bugs on Windows because Microsoft performs much, much more extensive testing of their code than Linux does (which is sad, but is the reality).