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90% market share is a sum of marketing, good enough product 30 years ago, backwards compatibility and user habits. Many users, especially those living in browse
by 8draco8 9y ago
90% market share is a sum of marketing, good enough product 30 years ago, backwards compatibility and user habits. Many users, especially those living in browser, don't care about OS, they are perfectly fine on Ubuntu but they either don't know that there is something else than Windows or they are afraid of trying something new. I am talking here about majority of computer users not tech savvy crowd visiting HN.
- dTal 9y agoAt this point I think it's largely a lack of viable alternatives. Despite increasingly loud noises of complaint from Windows users, it remains the only reasonable thing for a vendor to preinstall on a computer. OSX only comes on (expensive) Macs, and they tried Linux on netbooks back in 2007 and it was a disaster (partly due to vendor fragmentation, partly due to marketing that papered over the whole "different OS" issue). We so nearly had it with Ubuntu. I suspect sooner or later Google will pull it off in some form or another, if ChromeOS doesn't already count.
- 8draco8 9y agoLinux on laptop is a big success but only for specific audience. Dell have a lot of sales with their XPS Developer Edition and Project Sputnik http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/01/dell-talk-linux-laptops-distros-sales http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/01/dell-talk-linux-laptops-d...