And 6) when Linux will come pre-installed on new computers instead of Windows.StartOS wrote:1.When WINE will work with 99,9999% of apps, not just 95%KemyLand wrote:When do you think Windows will decay, and Linux will completely raise?
2.When someone will figure out a way for magicly transforming windows drivers into linux kernel modules
3.When LibreOffice will get a better UI
4.When a CRITICAL 0day in Windows is found every 12 hours
5.When Linux will gain enough media attention
When do you think Microsoft's monopoly will die?
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And pre-compiledmuazzam wrote: And 6) when Linux will come pre-installed on new computers instead of Windows.
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You mean like the ones that Dell used to sell with Linux pre-installed?
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Computers with Linux pre-installed do exist, but I meant, you know, majority of computers come with Windows.
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I think you may be confusing cause and effect here.muazzam wrote:Computers with Linux pre-installed do exist, but I meant, you know, majority of computers come with Windows.
Do the general public not use Linux because computer manufacturers don't sell computers with Linux pre-installed or do computer manufacturers not sell computers with Linux pre-installed (although, as we have seen, actually they do) because the general public don't want it? I see no reason to doubt the usual laws of supply and demand.
Re: When do you think Microsoft's monopoly will die?
A slight digression, but it does throw some light on the subject.
Back in the '90s a major manufacturer and retail chain (I forget their name, but they were German) sold computers in the UK that came pre-installed with OS/2 Warp. Also major manufacturers such as Dell or IBM would supply OS/2 as the installed operating system if required. Even though that was, without question, a better operating system than Windows it died the death. The reason was not a lack of computers with the OS pre-installed.
As with BetaMax, Elcaset, Mini Disks, DAT (no, I'm not anti-Sony; they just seem to have a certain knack with these things), etc. the reasons for the popularity, or otherwise, of a particular technology often have little connection with ease of use or technological superiority.
Back in the '90s a major manufacturer and retail chain (I forget their name, but they were German) sold computers in the UK that came pre-installed with OS/2 Warp. Also major manufacturers such as Dell or IBM would supply OS/2 as the installed operating system if required. Even though that was, without question, a better operating system than Windows it died the death. The reason was not a lack of computers with the OS pre-installed.
As with BetaMax, Elcaset, Mini Disks, DAT (no, I'm not anti-Sony; they just seem to have a certain knack with these things), etc. the reasons for the popularity, or otherwise, of a particular technology often have little connection with ease of use or technological superiority.
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Re: When do you think Microsoft's monopoly will die?
Actually I'd rather buy a computer with no OS and install my own choice of Linux than to use whatever distro the manufacturer decided to put on it.
When you start writing an OS you do the minimum possible to get the x86 processor in a usable state, then you try to get as far away from it as possible.
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Syntax checkup:
Wrong: OS's, IRQ's, zero'ing
Right: OSes, IRQs, zeroing