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Two main points:

  • no one unified distro to keep things simple (thread OP)

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  • people don't care. Someone else needs to advocate, sell, migrate, and support (medium term) Linux (whichever distro they want) for the intermediate term (few months at least) - thread response).

I think a lot of the 97% desktop market share is like this, instead of the hands on 2-3%.

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[–] beyond@linkage.ds8.zone 3 points 1 year ago

According to StatCounter, Android accounts for 39.2% of OS marketshare. Android is Linux. However, that is not what people think of when they advocate for "Linux."

But, that's what happens when you want Linux to get a majority of marketshare. You don't get your free software friendly GNU desktop, you get a weird proprietary locked down thing.