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Originally Posted by arjaybe
I can install my Linux distribution in 15 minutes or less, from booting the installation media to arriving at the newly installed desktop. From what I've heard, that's a little better than installing Windows. But that's the point, isn't it? It doesn't come pre-installed. If it did then it might be "killing" Windows the way the pre-installed Android is.
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Manufactures have and do offer Linux systems. My point is that the reason preinstalled Linux systems have not become the runaway best sellers that everyone is clamoring for, like Android tablets have, is PARTIALLY because Linux is still harder to to learn and use than Windows or Mac.
If it was "just as good" and "just as easy" on top of taking $100 or so off the cost of a system, there should be a iPhone-esque crowds lined up to buy them.
The fact is, there is too much disparity between distros and tools, some important apps are not as compatible or as polished as their Windows or Mac equivalents, and user training and support is....well, let's say variable, and at it's worst, subject to the worst kind of rude geek-fanboy forum online support.
Are there other reasons that have nothing to do with ease of use? Certainly. But that does not make anything I'm saying untrue.