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I know we're not meant to do "me too" comments on HackerNews but me too. For the life of me I do not know why one of the top Linux distro makers hasn't attempt
by igravious 10y ago
I know we're not meant to do "me too" comments on HackerNews but me too.
For the life of me I do not know why one of the top Linux distro makers hasn't attempted this. Or even a consortium of them? The top ten distros on Distrowatch are:
1 Mint
2 Debian
3 Ubuntu
4 openSUSE
5 elementary
6 Manjaro
7 Fedora
8 Zorin
9 CentOS
10 Arch
If they partnered with a hardware maker like Lenovo or Dell or Asus or whoever they could jump-start a whole new world. Chromebooks show it can be done.
- ianai 10y agoIt would have to be a hardware manufacturer choosing a Linux distribution. They would have to expect more sales than the cost of development. Contrast that with market share and growth of the Linux desktop. It's historically not been worth it to them.