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Then after all those 'problems' I should be seeing tons of users choosing a Linux Desktop distro (which one out of millions) mass migrating out of Windows by now. Why is that still not the case yet after 20 years?

It seems that after 20 years, these users still do not care enough to do any of that and WSL2 has only given a reason to make backing up / migrating / wiping / installing a Linux Desktop distro even less worth it these days.




Why do you think they aren't? There's a massive gaming on Linux movement which is only going up, and Chromebooks are outselling Apple Macs. Most main OEMs sell Linux-compatible devices, that come with Linux preinstalled.


So when we say 'Linux' we're now talking about 'Chromebooks' with ChromeOS.

Not only they defeated the purpose of someone else's point on getting rid of 'closed source' and 'spyware' controlled by Google, it is already at risk of ending up getting replaced by Fuchsia but may still be called 'ChromeOS' and it won't be based on Linux. That is my bet on this decade.

I still don't see any evidence of Windows being challenged by any Linux Desktop distro other than being used in WSL2. That is it.


20 years for 1% increase, sooo massive.

Chromebooks aren't Linux, the userspace runs on the Web Platform, and Crostini is no different from WSL 2.


> Chromebooks aren't Linux

pretty certain they are

let me guess... Android phones aren't Linux either?

or the millions of Dell/HP servers running nginx/Java/Postgres/...?


> Let me guess... Android phones aren't Linux either?

Exactly, ask the Termux guys how much fun they are having obeying to this set of API restrictions,

https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/stable_apis

Do you see any Linux APIs there? I don't.

And just for the case you are feeling clever,

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2016/06/improving-...

> or the millions of Dell/HP servers running nginx/Java/Postgres/...?

We are not speaking about servers on a thread about laptops and desktop computers.

It is quite clear that UNIX owns the server room.


how many raw NT kernel APIs do your typical Win32 programs call?

probably zero?

so I guess Win32 programs aren't really Windows programs then?

Win32 running on top of NT is no different to the Android API running on top of the Linux kernel


Whatever makes you feel happy, beware not to stumble on the fuchsia carpet on the way out.


what a fantastic rebuttal

watch out for the Wine stain


There are marvelous cleaning products for that, you should inform yourself.

2% market share on the desktop market, or people giving big bucks to Apple instead of supporting Linux laptop OEMs, don't need rebutals, they are well known facts.

As for Android and ChromeOS, keep padding yourself on the back, maybe one day you can run Gimp on them without layers of VM and containers.


I think Windows being a product of a big company also played a role. It mainly came pre-installed on most device. Because Microsoft pushes for it, and user, especially the non-technical one, won't bother to install something else on their machine. So, for most computer user, there is just no other choice.


Who cares?

You're making the presumption that more popular is better. You're also heavily implying that linux desktop users should care that it's less popular - I genuinely don't. 2022 is another year of the linux desktop for me, and I'm so glad to be off windows again.




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