Well, in fact, there isn’t one missing link. But in this FOSSwire article, I’m going to look at one major issue standing in the way of getting desktop Linux any serious market share. And that is OEMs.

OEMs, are understandably, reluctant to offer desktop Linux pre-installed on their computers. They don’t know how well computers like this will sell, they are heavily pressurised by Microsoft and no major OEM has done anything like this before.

The average computer user doesn’t know about desktop Linux. Most people don’t even have the vaguest idea that anything like an alternative OS actually exists. They see Computer == Windows. Even if OEMs did offer Linux, without a lot of marketing, the average person would probably just pick a Windows machine for familiarity reasons.

People are lazy and don’t want to relearn.

So if computer manufacturers aren’t offering Linux on their computers and the average computer user has no idea Linux exists, then how do we get desktop Linux more mind and market share?

Well, if we’re going to get anywhere, we have to break this cycle.

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