Another lost year for linux?
Ever since Linux came out of the shadow and made the front cover in most computing magazines as the next big thing all of it’s fans wait for the day that it’s market share will grow and “eat” Microsoft windows. Yet it’s almost 8 years so far and Microsoft is still dominating the market. On the other hand Linux (created as a desktop system initially) is still bottoming at about 3% of desktops worldwide. Things are better on the server side but I think that if apache wasn’t the dominant web server, Linux would be bottoming here too.
Why people don’t use Linux ? It’s free, it’s quite mature, hardware support is decent and on top of that it’s open source. You can do whatever you want with and even publish your own version. Sounds like a dream, doesn’t it ?
Back to the real world those benefits are far from enough for a decent market share. In detail:
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