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What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows (www.theregister.com)
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As Torvalds pointed out in 2019, is that while some major hardware vendors do sell Linux PCs – Dell, for example, with Ubuntu – none of them make it easy. There are also great specialist Linux PC vendors, such as System76, Germany's TUXEDO Computers, and the UK-based Star Labs, but they tend to market to people who are already into Linux, not disgruntled Windows users. No, one big reason why Linux hasn't taken off is that there are no major PC OEMs strongly backing it. To Torvalds, Chromebooks "are the path toward the desktop."

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[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

So Linux, “the free alternative to Windows”, needs corporate backing to sell it and make it mainstream?

It does help. Just look what has been achieved thanks to Valve.

And I think the worst thing, the thing holding Linux back the most, is the divisiveness of the Linux community

True, but the linux community is SO much friendlier and welcoming now than it was 20+ years ago. And its getting better all the time as that kind of behavior gets further and further ostracized, alienated, and shut down.

I still remember the amount of toxic hostility and hatred I received from Linux communities in the late 90s and early aughts when i gave my first couple tries to linux.

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