Question: Why Is Linux So Unpopular?
Contents the Main Reason Why Linux Is Not Popular on the Desktop Is That It Doesn’t Have “The One” Os for the Desktop as Does Microsoft with Its Windows and...
The main reason why Linux is not popular on the desktop is that it doesn’t have “the one” OS for the desktop as does Microsoft with its Windows and Apple with its macOS. If Linux had only one operating system, then the scenario would be totally different today. Linux world has a plethora of OSs to choose from.
Why did Linux fail?
Linux has been criticized for a number of reasons, including lack of user-friendliness and having a steep learning curve, being inadequate for desktop use, lacking support for some hardware, having a relatively small games library, lacking native versions of widely used applications.
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Is Linux dead?
Al Gillen, the program vice president for servers and system software at IDC, says the Linux OS as a computing platform for end users is at least comatose – and probably dead. Yes, it has reemerged on Android and other devices, but it has gone almost completely silent as a competitor to Windows for mass deployment.
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