Microsoft doesn’t really have competitors in the traditional sense. Steam OS exists because they fucked up windows 8 so badly that Valve saw them as a liability to their revenue stream. Linux exists because hobbyists make it, and people use it out of preference. Apple is off doing their own thing.
Their biggest threat is shooting themselves in the foot so much that each leg is a bloody stump. I literally got pushed away from windows because they kept doing shit I didn’t like, to the point I was willing to make the transfer, and eat the year or so it took to get comfortable with Linux. Linux is good, but to a majority of people it’s the lesser evil at this point.
Microsoft doesn’t really have competitors in the traditional sense. Steam OS exists because they fucked up windows 8 so badly that Valve saw them as a liability to their revenue stream. Linux exists because hobbyists make it, and people use it out of preference. Apple is off doing their own thing.
Their biggest threat is shooting themselves in the foot so much that each leg is a bloody stump. I literally got pushed away from windows because they kept doing shit I didn’t like, to the point I was willing to make the transfer, and eat the year or so it took to get comfortable with Linux. Linux is good, but to a majority of people it’s the lesser evil at this point.
linux doesnt exist because hobbyists make it. the inteternet runs on it. the largest companies in the world run on it.
these companies that contribute to the kernel arent hobbyists https://insights.linuxfoundation.org/project/korg/contributors?timeRange=past365days&start=2025-05-02&end=2026-05-02