• jimmy90@lemmy.world
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    Agreed. Android and chrome os are used happily by 10s of millions without any idea it’s a Linux distro

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      1 year ago

      I bet if small, cheap netbooks came out running mint or fedora or something people wouldn’t even or know or care that it was Linux.

      • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.org
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        In middle school I had a USB drive with Linux Mint installed on it which I was using on school PCs. We only used those PCs for internet browsing and office. Not a single soul noticed it wasn’t Windows. Teacher only noticed 2 differences, “You have different version of Office installed here.” and also gave me a note for “Changing wallpaper” which was strictly prohibited for some reason.

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          Absolutely. In fact i think everyone is hoping steam os will be the distro to make the big push onto desktop because of the gaming and another just works kind of interface

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        Indeed, many Netbooks come with a firmware dual boot. Besides the crappy Windows lite edition, there’s a tiny instant-on Linux too. Most people don’t use that, but it’s there.

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        Indeed, many Netbooks come with a firmware dual boot. Besides the crappy Windows lite edition, there’s a tiny instant-on Linux too. Most people don’t use that, but it’s there.

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      Which actually means Linux is being successfully adopted by the general public in a similar way to windows as a general use system that doesn’t require a lot of technical knowledge.

      Fully customizable distress will never be popular with the general public. They want systems that just do the general stuff and have it work automatically.