>I really hope that the threat of Apple switching to ARM causes Intel to push Linux as an alternative to OSX. And what exactly would that achieve? It's not as

>I really hope that the threat of Apple switching to ARM causes Intel to push Linux as an alternative to OSX. And what exactly would that achieve? It's not as if consumers listen to Intel about what OS to buy. There is a way for Linux to matter as an alternative to OS X (and Windows) and that is for it to get more like OS X (or Windows): Intel, Google or some player(s), could hire an experienced project manager guy, and a 100-200 person team, plus QA testing and documentation writers. Preferably most of the core team would be the top volunteers at their specific projects. The then should spends some in the range of a billion a year for a couple of years, and fix EVERY pain point Linux has for consumers, especially multimedia use which is crap (e.g, a Joe guy trying to make a 5 minute video of his holidays). They should also use all that money to influence design decisions in a "benevolent dictatorship" manner, so that we finally have things like long term binary AND driver stability and third party apps for Linux.