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Why Linux is Best for Most People (medium.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It’s not because it’s not used by the common public, it’s because there aren’t normie-friendly resources and or a company help desk that average people rely on when they need assistance.

And why there aren't normie-friendly resources and or a company help desk? :)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Because it’s hard to support employees and compete with corporate behemoths like Microsoft and Apple when your product is a free, open-source OS?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Personally I haven't heard of anyone getting support from Microsoft or finding Microsoft help pages useful. MacOS and Windows are making money on the support for corporate users and for manufacturers preinstalling the system (Apple being it for themselfs). Nothing that Linux cannot also do.

We are talking about going mainstream, then do you think that if Linux would have ~80% of the desktop market, there won't be any commercial support companies and normie level help? There certanly is for the server space, even home servers like NAS devices.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I don’t get the point of playing what if.

If Linux somehow grew its market share to 80% of all users then there probably would be some form of support-based business or companies forking off their own version and building their own supported platforms, and the we end up with a bunch of closed platforms competing for all the money by offering a more polished experience for a premium.

Or none of that happens. I don’t know, this is all just make-believe because it’s a scenario that’s never going to happen.