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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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[–] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 40 points 2 days ago (2 children)

"Everyone wants to save the world, but no one can agree on how..."

The linux problem in a nutshell

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Yep, choice is nice, but everyone and their uncle rolling out distros is excessive as all fuck. Especially when there is precious little that isnt ultimately, deep down, just another flavor of Debian, Arch or Fedora.

[–] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

This is one of the coolest things about Universal Blue OSs like Bazzite. You can very easily roll your own custom OS based off of one of their images. And it's all automated.

I feel like that's the best of both worlds. Extreme customizability and standardization.

[–] michaelmrose@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So? There are lots of restraint and cars and people manage to just pick one

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 day ago

They also usually stay true to their car brand.

So the choice has been narrowed down to their house brand and the current/last year model.

So much choices... /s

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz -3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thats not actually a problem. Every other OS has that problem.

Mac will never get 100% market share because there will always be people that hate their workflow. Linux can offer a tailored version to everyone's liking.

[–] jasoman@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

As long as they don't need nividia drivers.

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

There are versions that ship with the proprietary nvidia driver. The reason people have issues is the distros shipping the open version due to philosophy or distros shipping the open version for compatibility reasons. The open version is worse but at least it works the proprietary version doesnt support a lot of cards.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

As long as they don’t need nividia drivers.

Luckily NVidia is rather selling their GPUs to AI datacenters than to home consumers.