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There's no "Linux" TO pre install, since nobody agrees on a standard distro. Everyone who tries to do that seems to invent their own distro, making fragmentati

There's no "Linux" TO pre install, since nobody agrees on a standard distro. Everyone who tries to do that seems to invent their own distro, making fragmentation worse, and now they have to also be distro makers which probably doesn't help costs much.

rolph 2y ago
does "linux" prevent you from switching distros, or multi booting, or using a system app that you coded yourself ?
- eternityforest 2y ago
  If it's not pre-installed, most users won't do any of that. If I wasn't a developer, and wasn't often using cheaper hardware, I might also be using completely stock windows. I'm not sure what the "killer app" would be aside from privacy concerns. I wouldn't even think of coding a system app myself unless I worked for Canonical or Red Hat, whatever I make is almost guaranteed to not be the next big thing with a full paid team backing it, and I'm not a fan of "software for one person".
  - rolph 2y ago
    what if you retailed hardware that you have pre-installed a distro or two onto ? within license of course. or provided an install ready hware configured item, with a runthis first disk, i.e. onboarding stream, so it is an enduser install? there is a business near me doing these things and he keeps his home n bills paidfor.
    - eternityforest 2y ago
      Which is really cool, but it seems like... people mostly just.... don't do that. Presumably more people will use Linux(And any other cool FOSS tech) as more people do so. Like, how many really neat technologies have been completely forgotten because nobody put it on the play store? A lot of them would only have been a week of work. But I sure don't want to maintain it all by myself, the odds of it becoming a community project that mostly runs itself are low, and for personal use it's easier to just use whatever crappy solution is readily available. We have all the tech for so many cool things, what we don't have is said tech packaged and maintained.

rolph 2y ago

does "linux" prevent you from switching distros, or multi booting, or using a system app that you coded yourself ?

eternityforest 2y ago
If it's not pre-installed, most users won't do any of that. If I wasn't a developer, and wasn't often using cheaper hardware, I might also be using completely stock windows. I'm not sure what the "killer app" would be aside from privacy concerns. I wouldn't even think of coding a system app myself unless I worked for Canonical or Red Hat, whatever I make is almost guaranteed to not be the next big thing with a full paid team backing it, and I'm not a fan of "software for one person".
- rolph 2y ago
  what if you retailed hardware that you have pre-installed a distro or two onto ? within license of course. or provided an install ready hware configured item, with a runthis first disk, i.e. onboarding stream, so it is an enduser install? there is a business near me doing these things and he keeps his home n bills paidfor.
  - eternityforest 2y ago
    Which is really cool, but it seems like... people mostly just.... don't do that. Presumably more people will use Linux(And any other cool FOSS tech) as more people do so. Like, how many really neat technologies have been completely forgotten because nobody put it on the play store? A lot of them would only have been a week of work. But I sure don't want to maintain it all by myself, the odds of it becoming a community project that mostly runs itself are low, and for personal use it's easier to just use whatever crappy solution is readily available. We have all the tech for so many cool things, what we don't have is said tech packaged and maintained.