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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Then again, many vendors have offered those linux systems in obscure corners of their websites, making it hard to buy unless you were specifically looking for it, because they didn't want to upset the apple cart with their vendor deals with Microsoft. I don't really consider any of those failures to be actual attempts, so it doesn't prove they don't sell.
It could very well be they don't sell, but we don't have any meaningful data on the issue.
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There were several lines of Linux desktop systems sold on the shelves of Walmart and CompUSA. They didn't do well.
If they were to try again, and hope to make it successful with consumer mass market, they'd need to:
1. Not call it Linux.
2. Hide all those feature and tools that you call easy and powerful, but most people call complex, unfamilar, unwanted and frightening.
Which is, by the way, exactly what ChromeOS (and Android for that matter) is.
Want the added power? Install it yourself.
The wider market has spoken clearly about what it wants.