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> only 2 commercially viable mass market desktop operating systems There's a chap from RedHat here, telling me that Linux is commercially viable.
by denton-scratch 5y ago
> only 2 commercially viable mass market desktop operating systems
There's a chap from RedHat here, telling me that Linux is commercially viable.
- simonh 5y agoThere are several commercially viable desktop OSes other than Windows and MacOS, but they are not mass market. I knowingly wrote my comment to exclude specialist players addressing niche markets because they have completely different adoption dynamics. Actually ChromeOS is arguably mass market. That's all beside the point though really. It doesn't change the fact that the dynamics that drive consolidation are actually in a very large part motivated by user self interest.