Subj : Re: Windows vs Linux
To   : Spectre
From : tenser
Date : Fri Apr 22 2022 02:27:38

On 21 Apr 2022 at 07:36a, Spectre pondered and said...
 
 Sp>  te> Something people continue to miss is that Linux _has_ been adopted
 Sp>  te> en mass.  Most people probably have at least one Linux device at
 Sp>  te> home, often without even realizing it.
 Sp> 
 Sp> That's.... probably not correct.  Sure there's plenty of devices with
 Sp> linux embedded but its not really the user system. It'll have a custom
 Sp> front end on it if its visible at all.  You could say it has wide
 Sp> industry adoption, but that is as much the fault of the likes of M$
 Sp> writing dud systems as it is because they wanted linux in the first
 Sp> place.

Yes, that's the point.  The number of embedded devices absolutely
dwarfs desktop systems, and even mobile devices.

"Custom front end" is kind of irrelevant.  Android phones run Linux
under the hood, and I suppose one can think of those as having a
"custom front end" but so what?  People act as if it's not Linux
unless it's on a desktop or laptop, or that Linux hasn't achieved
widespread adoption unless it's running on same, but that misses
the point entirely.

The fact of the matter is, that if you use the Internet, you touch
a computer somewhere running Linux daily, most likely in your own
home.  I'd go so far as to wager that most consumer-grade WiFi base
stations and "routers" are running Linux at this point.

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