Uses This: Bram Moolenaar

My Fedora and FreeBSD laptops have been solid workhorses for years - I'm on my third MBP at work and I loathe the thing. It's hard to say how much of that is the new keyboard and all the corporate spyware it's saddled with, but it has been decidedly less stable for me.

> That tells you a lot of why people prefer MBP for work

From the same article:

> "For work I also have a MacBook Pro. It's not my favorite, the keyboard doesn't type well, it only has USB-C ports which are so close together you can only use one out of two. I would go back to the MacBook Air if I could."

I have never in 25 years had a Linux system that "fails to restart sometimes". His Ubuntu machine probably has hardware problems.

So, no, it is not enough to explain why so many people endure the frequent degradation Apple and MS impose. Habituation is the better explanation.

What people who use less than 1% of production want tends to have little effect, except when they are willing to pay the difference in cost for volume and niche production runs.

I.e., affordable equipment with 16:9 displays rides free on the entertainment train. If enough people were willing to pay a few $hundred more to get 4:3, somebody would make it.