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Originally Posted by Sean_W
From an actual market share point of view, no, Linux never really got seriously started in the desktop market because it's not sold on the shelves or properly shipped via OEMs.
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Dude, retail. Does the word retail mean anything to you? Yes, it's been on store shelves. Many, many times in fact, between 1998 and 2005. Eventually they stopped because it didn't sell sh*t.
Not to mention, several different companies bundled Linux with PC's. Unlike you, I was around to remember Corel Linux, Lindows/Linspire, Suse, Redhat (yes, the vanilla desktop version.) Hell, fry's electronics used to sell PC's that had Linux preinstalled.
Hell, Corel Linux and Lindows were all about nothing BUT end users in the desktop space.
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Originally Posted by Sean_W
DELL did a half job. HP, well meh. The desktop is pretty pointless for Linux anyway, Redhat knew that years ago when they left the desktop distro(they still are a big contributor to the Linux desktop) and now make millions in server and support.
Redhat are the first Linux product company to make 1 billion.
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Right, so if the desktop is pretty pointless for linux anyways, then why not just stick to something that has a point? E.g. Windows.