sudoMakeUser comments on do you see linux ever having 10 - 20 % market share in desktop space?

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[–] sudoMakeUser@sh.itjust.works 25 points 7 months ago (4 children)

For the education sector and software developer sector these numbers are already met and well exceeded. For the consumer desktop, yes, I think so. I think some big company other than Valve and Google will sell a Linux desktop machine, be it x86 or ARM. When most of the stuff consumers use is through the browser, OEMs clinging to Windows is not going to last forever.

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[–] st3ph3n@midwest.social 9 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Dell already offers some models with Ubuntu on them.

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[–] sudoMakeUser@sh.itjust.works 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

And Lenovo, I saved $100 and the time to setup Ubuntu on my Thinkpad. But I'm picturing something that is Linux only and a major release like a Chromebook or the Steam Deck were/are.

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[+] umbrella@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] sudoMakeUser@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago

I mean only Linux as the product is released with only Linux offered by the company, as in not a choice between Windows and Linux. Linux first by design.

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[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 points 7 months ago

It's a computer with standard computer hardware, so you can install anything on it. It's Linux by default though, and with packages specifically curated to make it operate well. I don't know how many distros or OSs work well with the hardware out-of-the-box.