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That may sound obvious to you, but it's not for many, and this opinion of yours is shared by fewer and fewer people.

Some things not having viable alternatives on MacOS/Linux/BSD/whatever-else is not an opinion of mine. It's just life.

I didn't mean that you were nonfactual, only that you overgeneralise.

More often than not it is just an opinion or to be more precise: learned helplessness.

It should be a choice. They were or nearly were convicted for being a monopoly. For most users, they're not even aware there's a hardware/software distiction.

MS-Windows GUI has cashed on this unawareness since 95. "My Computer", "The computer needs to restart"... Being deliberately incorrect to add to the existing confusion.

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