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It failed to grow because it was never preinstalled on a sufficiently large number of machines at BestBuy, there's nothing else to it. If people were buying PCs
by AsyncAwait 8y ago
It failed to grow because it was never preinstalled on a sufficiently large number of machines at BestBuy, there's nothing else to it. If people were buying PCs with Linux on them, they'll use Linux and nobody would find anything weird about it.
- dingo_bat 8y agoFirefox was also not pre-installed but still beat out IE.
- cbsmith 8y agoFirefox was pre-installed (just not by OS makers) and it didn't so much beat IE as Chrome beat IE and didn't harm Firefox nearly as much (likely because Google prioritized converting systems where neither Firefox nor Chrome were the default browser).
- AsyncAwait 8y agoInstalling an alternative browser alongside your existing one requires minimal investment. Backing up all your data, converting to alternative formats, adopting a whole suite of new programs, different conventions etc. is an entirely different investment if you're already on Windows - if you had purchased the PC with Linux, it would be the same amount of hassle switching back to Windows.