• Chastity2323@midwest.social
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    14 days ago

    Honestly I think potentially a bigger factor is that there are very few manufacturers who sell machines with linux preinstalled. Very few people have ever installed an OS before or have any desire to do so.

    Also there is plenty of software with no real linux alternative even today unfortunately.

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      14 days ago

      That is exactly why Chromebooks were (are?) so popular. You got a cheap laptop with an easy-to-use OS without having to do any install. And let’s be real here, most people don’t need anything more than a web browser.