KapedLinux Desktop share keeps increasing, 3.13% now.
Nearly 30 years after I first heard "Linux will take over Windows"! Think that was in 1994 or 1995.
Anarch157aTo dislodge an incumbent, a product needs to have an enormous advantage, a killer feature that makes the hassle of changing worth it. Up until now, Linux didn’t have it. Well, it did, but Windows had it too, but Microsoft dropped it: lack of ads baked on the OS.
Now that Windows is turning into yet another Ad delivery system, people are looking for an escape. Many are going to Macs, some are coming to Linux.
That’s not really a killer app.
The biggest reason Windows is the leader by far is because of the Office suite. There’s no good alternative that has anywhere near the features or fluidity and doesn’t feel like it was designed in 2005.
NeilFunny enough, MS is constantly improving the online versions of the office apps. On Linux if i need to be absolutely sure my formatting is good in a word document, I will open it in the online version of Word as opposed to LibreOffice.
Online Office has definitely gotten better. At this point I think the big nursing features are macros (which will never come) and Power Query/Pivot and the Data Model.