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Linux is already widely used in govt and public servant computers. It's easy to do that, but to do it "for the masses" is an entirely different game. To this d
by dartharva 3y ago
Linux is already widely used in govt and public servant computers. It's easy to do that, but to do it "for the masses" is an entirely different game.
To this day, laptop and desktop computers "for the masses" exist almost solely for office work and gaming. Windows and Microsoft products are too ingrained in both use cases, so it will take a herculean effort in changing software standards and platforms for app vendors to consider Linux.
- dotcoma 3y agoI'm sure it's going to take a herculean effort, but hight time somebody took on the challenge.
- pydry 3y agoThe effort required is mainly in preventing Microsoft from subtly pressuring OEMs to either not offer Linux or to cripple their offerings. The year of the Linux desktop ought to have started with the netbook craze of 2007 but Microsoft's nuclear response to that (free windows licenses, ordering OEMs to cap netbook RAM at 2GB) successfully choked that market segment in its sleep. There are, unfortunately, an awful lot of ways Microsoft can still subtly bring legally deniable pressure to bear on OEMs and antitrust enforcement in America is a joke anyhow.
- revelio 3y agoChromebooks managed it, made by OEMs. The issue with Linux is pervasively user-hostile design in the name of GNU ideology, not Microsoft