• HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml
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      2 months ago

      It doesn’t even matter how good Linux is or how bad Windows gets, Linux is lacking the one thing that made Windows mainstream: Billions of dollars in marketing and brand recognition.

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          The big difference being that most people don’t know or care to learn how to download their own OS. Installing a browser is quick and easy in comparison.

          I’ve been out of the tech world a minute now so maybe its changed but last I knew no PCs came with Linux preinstalled and you can’t just get a Linux OS disk to use to install.

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      2 months ago

      Windows will never come close to replacing Linux! There’s way more Linux out there than there is Windows.

      Presumably you mean on the personal desktop. In which case I still disagree in the very long term. I think at some point Windows will be replaced by *nix based systems in the vein of OSX and Chrome OS.