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by adarioble 2193 days ago
Linux on desktop is one of those things where reputation precedes reality. It runs fine most of the time, but many remember or have read the nightmare stories about non-functioning hardware, the need to compile drivers and so on. While Linux has been sorting out those issues, a lot of things moved ahead to SaaS and Web applications and for majority the device is just a terminal. Which runs Windows or MacOS because people are complacent and don’t care.