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What percentage of PCs ship with FreeDOS? And how's that indicator of the popularity of the FreeDOS system? Most of Ubuntu preinstalls won't even live to boot.

What percentage of PCs ship with FreeDOS? And how's that indicator of the popularity of the FreeDOS system? Most of Ubuntu preinstalls won't even live to boot. A shame really.

sukuriant 14y ago
Could you give me some stats? I wouldn't expect a population to go and spend a lot of money on a CD to install Windows onto a marginally cheaper machine
- jrockway 14y ago
  My guess is that people will get their Windows install media from the same place they get their Blu-Ray rips.
  - pjmlp 14y ago
    But at least the sale counts as a Linux sale, which is positive. I've also seen people that replace Mac OS X with Windows or Linux on their Apple laptops.
    - sukuriant 14y ago
      I completely forgot about people installing Windows on their Macs, even though anecdotally this is very common.
      - pjmlp 14y ago
        This can be easily observed in any Games Development Conference (GDC).
drchaos 14y ago
The obvious difference is that you cannot use FreeDOS for typical desktop activities (like surfing the web, reading mail, Facebook), whereas you can use Ubuntu for almost everything, except Gaming and Photoshop. From my experience with "normal" (non-techy) users, they don't bother switching OSes as long as they can use it for what they want to do, which is in many cases little more than running a browser.