nixCraft 🐧Dec 15, 2023
Poll: Will 2024 finally be when #Linux 🐧 conquers the desktop market? Is 2024 the year of the Linux Desktop?
yes 🐧
37.2%
no
62.8%
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Show threadIslamic Audiobooks Central

@nixCraft What we need is to sell laptops in stores at affordable prices with #Linux preinstalled.

Otherwise, relying on people to learn and install it themselves offers little to no hope.

Dec 16, 2023 at 10:56pmTusky
Show threadDaveDec 16, 2023

@islamicaudiobooks @nixCraft Agree with this 100%.

I think the expectation for average non-technically inclined people to seek out and install a different OS is unreasonable.

Average consumers don't care what OS is preinstalled, they only care that they are getting a good deal and if it does what they need it to do.

I think If every Windows PC also offered a cheaper sku with the same hardware but with Linux installed instead, i guarantee there would be a significant uptake in Linux users.

Show threadDaveDec 16, 2023

@islamicaudiobooks @nixCraft and when i say "Average users" this does not include Gamers, Power users, tinkerers etc (you know, people like us).

I'm talking about people that just surf the web, read emails, use streaming services - these make up the majority of consumers and Linux would be absolutely fine for them but they would never go out of their way to install Linux because as far as they are concerned the Windows that came preinstalled on their computer does the job already.

Show threadAlvaroDec 16, 2023
@islamicaudiobooks @nixCraft wasn’t that what Dell did years ago?
Show threadIslamic Audiobooks CentralDec 16, 2023
@alvaro @nixCraft Not really. The XPS series is neither affordable nor available in all countries.
Show threadAlvaroDec 16, 2023
@islamicaudiobooks @nixCraft interesting, i thought it was all models
Show threadIslamic Audiobooks CentralDec 16, 2023
@alvaro @nixCraft I don't think so. I asked them when I needed to buy for someone else. They said they could install Linux once the laptop arrived from Australia but no Linux laptops were available for NZ at all.
Show threadcameronbosch Dec 17, 2023
@islamicaudiobooks @nixCraft Bingo. As somebody who first installed Linux via a DVD in 2010 (Ubuntu 10.04), I can tell you that burning an ISO onto a USB is something most people would not be happy doing. Heck, even I hated doing it until I did it so many times because computers don't have disc drives anymore!