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Linux Still Not a Threat to Windows 10’s Home Domination

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Softpedia News; By Bogdan Popa
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The death of Windows 7 was seen by many as a major opportunity for the Linux world to gain new users, especially as many of the devices where Microsoft’s 2009 operating system was installed were running on old hardware.

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The LXer audience love Linux. Others love MacOS. Some others love the BSD's (and HaikuOS).

But most people merely tolerate Microsoft Windows. It's there, and they gotta use it somehow.
> But most people merely tolerate Microsoft Windows. It's there, and they gotta use it somehow.

Seems from looking on eBay and Craigslist over at least the last two years that many computers for sale STILL have Windoe$ installed by default. Usually, it's Win7-10 (even though support for 7 ended this January), but it's not really that hard at all to find an ultracheap PC with XP pre-installed on it.

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