Honestly maybe insane take but it’s either a skill issue or a refusal to accept new pathways of doing stuff. I’ve used basically every os and mobile os at some point and I’ve never had issues learning or finding new workflows. Yes things will be different, yes you may not be able to do some things. But you also can absolutely do some new things and learn if you’re willing to accept that it’s different and stop trying to do everything the way you already know. Plus basically everyone has access to the internet, it’s hilarious to me how often people will go “I wonder about this fact” and I’m like “you literally carry a computer in your pocket”. Now sometimes what to search can be hard but as with anything practice allows one to eventually become proficient. If people really don’t want to learn new stuff and expect it to be the same they simply shouldn’t switch.

I expect us the tech literate / enthusiasts / professionals, advocating about this feel similarly to climate scientists. Screaming into the void as it all goes to shit.

Me I’m one of them. That’s what an iPad is for if you want that honestly. I despise shy modicum of cruft on my laptop screens

I want to preface this with saying I 100% prefer open source to closed source. That said I’m not sure open source without closed source would be as good simply because I think that open source would just inherently be even more fractured than it is now. Choices are good but too many choices are bad.

Yeah the way I see it either A) Someone buys it although it probably will lose user share maybe it becomes a corporate OS B) A bunch of proprietary Linux distros / forks crop up C) MacOS

Genuinely I’m curious what will happen if that’s the case and windows just ceases to exist

I’d definitely take that for sure

In that case does the infinity gauntlet count?

Not really a weapon but Sonic screwdriver

Except not the good kind