• Julian@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    #1 is just not being the default for 99% of devices. If someone gets a new computer, why would they go through the effort of installing a new os when the one it comes with works fine? Hell, I bet at least 50% of people in the market for a pc don’t even know what an OS is.

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      1 year ago

      Agreed. Android and chrome os are used happily by 10s of millions without any idea it’s a Linux distro

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        I bet if small, cheap netbooks came out running mint or fedora or something people wouldn’t even or know or care that it was Linux.

        • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.org
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          In middle school I had a USB drive with Linux Mint installed on it which I was using on school PCs. We only used those PCs for internet browsing and office. Not a single soul noticed it wasn’t Windows. Teacher only noticed 2 differences, “You have different version of Office installed here.” and also gave me a note for “Changing wallpaper” which was strictly prohibited for some reason.

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            1 year ago

            Absolutely. In fact i think everyone is hoping steam os will be the distro to make the big push onto desktop because of the gaming and another just works kind of interface

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          Indeed, many Netbooks come with a firmware dual boot. Besides the crappy Windows lite edition, there’s a tiny instant-on Linux too. Most people don’t use that, but it’s there.

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          Indeed, many Netbooks come with a firmware dual boot. Besides the crappy Windows lite edition, there’s a tiny instant-on Linux too. Most people don’t use that, but it’s there.

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        Which actually means Linux is being successfully adopted by the general public in a similar way to windows as a general use system that doesn’t require a lot of technical knowledge.

        Fully customizable distress will never be popular with the general public. They want systems that just do the general stuff and have it work automatically.

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      I bet at least 50% of people in the market for a pc don’t even know what an OS is.

      70%*

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      1 year ago

      my first thought actually pointed to common OS on work devices, being Windows i’d assume a majority of the time, i’d imagine a large portion of the older population were introduced to computers in a workplace setting. But your answer makes a bit more sense.