It is obvious that the almost
ONLY reason most desktop (and laptop) PCs don't use Linux is because all big-box shops sell their products with MS Windows pre-installed. I wish the day that will end! The other one that tons of software hasn't been ported to Linux, and people qualify them as "necessary for life". (i.e: MS Office, Photoshop...)
Some statistics state that 1% of PCs use Linux. It isn't not true, at least that's my perspective. See for example Android: it is based on the Linux Kernel, and is a
really used OS on mobile devices.
Most desktop users don't even know how to deal with a Windows "error" (remember: in Unix everything is a file, in NT everything is a BSOD). So, how would they know how to install a (foreign) O.S?
Sure Torvalds isn't always the most polite of all:
Linus Benedict Torvalds wrote:
So, NVIDIA, **** You! *F-Bomb*
But he
knows how to incorporate people
Linus Benedict Torvalds wrote:
From:
[email protected] (Linus Benedict Torvalds)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: What would you like to see most in minix?
Summary: small poll for my new operating system
Message-ID: <
[email protected]>
Date: 25 Aug 91 20:57:08 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki
Hello everybody out there using minix -
I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and
professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing
since april, and is starting to get ready. I’d like any feedback on
things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat
(same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons)
among other things).
I’ve currently ported bash(1.08) and gcc(1.40), and things seem to work.
This implies that I’ll get something practical within a few months, and
I’d like to know what features most people would want. Any suggestions
are welcome, but I won’t promise I’ll implement them
Linus (
[email protected])
PS. Yes – it’s free of any minix code, and it has a multi-threaded fs.
It is NOT protable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never
will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that’s all I have
.
I think that sometime (pls in near future
), somewhere (pls not in my house jeje) people will start to notice Linux as the real solution to Windows. Unix should always been the standard (it was by some time).
When do you think Windows will decay, and Linux will completely raise?
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