I never even thought to check. Was Games not a default folder?

I wonder if it’s a problem with branding.

Forgive me if I’m a bit incoherent, this idea isn’t fully formed, but… Do you think they are doing this stupid crap to differentiate their brand? Like, the push for Unity GUI and the push for Snap. Those don’t solve problems, do they? They are just different. Just things that others don’t do.

If I spun up a fork of Debian, the first question everybody would ask is “why not run Debian instead?”

…is that what they are trying to accomplish with this? to answer the question of “why not run Debian instead?”

EDIT:typo

Microsoft isn’t exactly doing anything new. It’s the same strategy that’s worked for them forever ago:

Get kids used to Microsoft products by vendor locking K-12 schools with cheap contracts.

Monetize those kids when they graduate (they never had privacy to begin with, so there is little pushback) and hope they don’t switch to Apple’s subsidized MacBooks in college.

When all else fails, lean heavily on corporate contracts, since corporations can’t change their ecosystem set up 40 years ago.

Linux wins factor very little in the equation… and anyone switching to Linux is quickly replaced by the next kid who has had a Microsoft Windows keyboarding class every year since age 9.