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by Gazoche 1061 days ago
If it comes to this then desktop Linux will go from viable Windows alternative to obscure hobby OS overnight. The inconvenience factor of having your life split between two devices is just too high.

This is the same way that SafetyNet killed alternative ROMs on Android.
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popcalc 1060 days ago
>desktop Linux

>viable Windows alternative

Coffee just shot across my desk reading this. You are too deep in a bubble to realize that to 99.7% of people desktop Linux is an "obscure hobby OS", on the off chance they even know what it is.

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Gazoche 1060 days ago
Well, I hope your monitor is ok.

You're talking about the popularity of Linux as an alternative, I'm talking about its viability. It's viable because it runs web browsers just as well as Windows and that's all the average user cares about.

Regardless, the point is that any alternative, Linux or not, will be dead in the water once WEI rolls out. Doesn't matter how good your OS is, if it can't access the mainstream web it will die in obscurity. The same way that Windows on phones died because it couldn't get all the useful apps.

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kzhe 1059 days ago
Still using a custom ROM, what do you mean?
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