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What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows (www.theregister.com)

submitted 2 months ago by throws_lemy@reddthat.com to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] lattrommi@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

I'm late to this party but other than the quote in the post and article, I haven't seen anything about Star Labs. I never heard of them before or if I have, I probably confused them with Star Tech. I looked at their website and everytihng seems pretty legit to me. If anyone sees this and has had any experience with them, I'd love to hear more, good or bad. I've been looking into getting a new laptop as my current one is from 2008 and saw they have an AMD one which is rare in the laptop world it seems. I might need to make my own post about this.

[–] jerieljan@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I truly wish to see the day when any computer can easily run Linux painlessly.

I think the easiest ones I've seen are Linux Mint and all the vanilla installs of other mature distros, but I still see cases from time to time with friends and strangers who still somehow manage to get their setups in some issue or another, whether it's their hardware's fault or factory defaults / configs getting in the way or their own.

I'm just glad that these are getting much better than ever as time goes on.

[–] OmniLotus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

I'm being pedantic but friendly would be a more accurate term than mature. An example: Gentoo (or Arch) is very mature but not friendly or "easy".

[–] Matriks404@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

That's why we need FreeBSD on the desktop /s

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

It's SJVN. That's all you need to know.

He's no Cringely.

[–] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

heard lenovo has an option for linux on certain thinkpads, im not sure where the lemmy post i saw it in tho, but i know it exists.

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