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Linux: Does Being Competitive with Windows Matter?

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on · 4 comments
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How many times have you heard this statement: "It's the year of the Linux desktop." Not recently? Then how about "Linux is making gains on the Windows desktop"? Still leaving a bad taste in your mouth? Bet I know why. For years, both the statements above have been over-used to the point that either idea is now completely meaningless. Not due to anything negative with the Linux desktop, mind you, rather due to inherent differences in how Linux is marketed to the world, who its intended audience is and whether mainstream adoption even matters in the first place.

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Comments (4)

JaseP ·
There are many valid points in his article. What we Linux enthusiasts should be concerned with is not a comparison to M$ or Apple, but just getting a complete computing experience.

The problem is that through those companies trying to lock us out, either by hardware or by some software functionality, they, in the words of that (in)famous fictional mobster, "keep pulling [us] back in." We have to resort to fighting them back, and it just opens the whole thing back up. M$ & Apple can't just leave us alone, because to them, we ought to be using their stuff & paying tribute to them for what they delude themselves into believing [or outright lie about] they "invented." Like M$ with patenting the off button.
Steven_Rosenber ·
I think this TOTALLY matters. Preloads and OEM/hardware-vendor support are what any OS needs. Linux ain't getting them.
JaseP ·
Not sure what you mean by the "this"...

What matters? Comparisons?

Oh, & Linux is getting more OEM support than you might suspect at first instance. Dell, HP, & others are supplying them more & more. Where the lock-out happens is not with the vendors that supply machines with Linux. It's with specialty hardware (MIDs, etc) & vendors that allow themselves to be bought, rather than use Linux as a means to get better M$ OS pricing.
Steven_Rosenber ·
This = Linux being competitive with Windows

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