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But what's the difference with ca. 1999-2002 when Loki ported popular games to Linux, Corel released Wordperfect for Linux and their own Linux distribution, Red
by danieldk 14y ago
But what's the difference with ca. 1999-2002 when Loki ported popular games to Linux, Corel released Wordperfect for Linux and their own Linux distribution, Red Hat was the darling of the Linux world, and VA Systems IPOed?
That window of opportunity is gone. Home users are moving to tablets for most of their computing. For businesses there is little incentive to move to Linux, Windows licenses are relatively cheap and come with hardware. Retraining personel is more expensive.
The traditional Linux desktop provides a fine UNIX workstation and if the crazy desktop experiments stop, it could compete with OS X. Linux for the average home user has already succeeded as Android.
- Gravityloss 14y agoI tried red hat in 2002. The experience was very uncomfortable and I quickly went back to windows. I tried linux again in 2008 and everything was great and i moved onto it immediately. Also installed it for my mom... What happened? Debian apt-get and Ubuntu.
- danieldk 14y agoSome user-friendly distributions at the time had apt-get, such as Corel Linux. Some other distributions, such as Caldera OpenLinux and SUSE were of a very good quality. At that time, you could install Linux on most computers without much effort. During that hype, I helped installing Linux a lot on friend and family's machines. The primary problem were Winmodems and some printers. These days we have Wifi, fan control, and such instead ;).
- officemonkey 14y ago>Home users are moving to tablets for most of their computing. Gamers are not the typical home users. Sure, there are games on tablets (and some of them are very good) but you're not going to get your typical hardcore MMO or FPS gamer to give up her big rig with giant monitor, bluetooth stereo headset, and pro-gamer mouse for a iPad game.