rbowman wrote on 2/20/2024 2:28 AM:
> On Mon, 19 Feb 2024 23:20:54 -0500, 😎 Mighty Wannabe ✅ wrote:
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>> Linux and ChromeOS have a combined market share of only 5%. That's why.
> That is pertinent how?
Of course that is pertinent. Website designers would make sure their new
website would behave properly on Windows OS. Maybe when they have time
they will boot up a Mac box to check if it works on Mac OS too. They
just don't bother with the remaining 5% market share, especially when
there are so many different flavours of Linux. Yes, you can multi-boot
500 different distros in one Linux box, or keep 500 separate Linus
boxes. This is also the reason most hardware manufacturers don't even
bother to make a Linux driver for their product. It doesn't make sense
to spend too much time on too few potential customers.
There are approximately 500 Linux distros out there:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_distributions
Linux has its place in the sun. It is true that many large corporations
hire their own Linux programmers and run Linux OS. They always have to
create and maintain their specialized software anyways, so there is no
point in paying royalty to use Windows which has bundled so much stuff
that they don't need in their home-built specialized application. And
then there is the Windows updates, which may wreak havoc in their
home-built software because they don't know how the next Windows update
can affect their application software. I think Linux can stay the same
version forever until you deliberately upgrade manually.