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Windows is “PC”
PC means Politically Correct
Windows has gone woke
I wonder what would happen if Red Hat took the opportunity to start advertising anti-Windows-Wokeness on X and TruthSocial and other fascsocial media. Probably a stupid business move because not like they’d actually adopt it but would be funny to watch.
It’s not like far right Linux guys are unheard of.
It’s just that they tend to be “literally who’s” instead of anyone relevant to any project people care about.
Wasn’t that almost what happened with Bryan Lunduke? AFAIK, dude took a hard turn to the right after years of decent Linux-related advocacy and then nuked his social media accounts and tried to claim the opposite. Not sure where he’s at now, but it was pretty strange.
Ah yes, Bryan Lunduke was a very well known name in Linux circles years ago. His Linux e-books still can be had.
Well yes but you see if we called all personal computers PCs then Mac users wouldn’t get to feel special
“PC” actually refers to a specific architecture based on the original IBM PC. PCs are personal computers but not all personal computers are PCs.
It’d be like as if we still referred to ARM-based devices as being “Acorn” devices. It’s one of those brand names that the public has turned into a generalized noun, like Kleenex and Bandaids.
A power outage
Turns my shiny computer
Into a dead rock.
EDIT: Lemmy edited out my paragraph breaks.
When it comes to line breaks on Lemmy, one is none, two is one.
Because Apple ran a series of commercials comparing Mac to “PC” to differentiate themselves from the rest of the market but didn’t acknowledge other OSs besides Windows in this series.
Those ads played everywhere and now everyone associates the term PC with Windows.
I could have my timeline off but the first time I heard PC to refer to windows specifically was around the time these commercials aired.
That’s not the reason. The “PC” marketing term originated with the IBM PC, after which every non-Apple device attempted to make some name-wise connection to the former, spawning a series of so called “IBM PC Compatibles” that have principally lived on design-wise until the present day.
The IBM-PC predates that campaign by almost two decades. PC was firmly associated with Microsoft Windows by the time the ad campaign ran in late 2000’s. I don’t think the ads even mention Windows, they just say “PC”.
