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Old 01-18-2020, 01:52 PM   #41
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Originally Posted by binaryhermit View Post
I didn't really mean to drag Linux into it, I was just saying that I don't think color eInk will really ever be much of a thing, at least not in the next 10 or more years
Linux on the Desktop was a good comparison. Linux is useful. Linux is dominate in several OTHER areas. And if you want to speak of kernels instead of operating systems, Linux dominates mobile as well.

However... “The Year of Linux on the Desktop” was about Linux trouncing Microsoft Windows “on the desktop”. It was predicted year after year after year after decade. It never happened. It never came close. It never even came close to being as big as the Mac....which has always been tiny compared to Windows.

Linux was superior in nearly every way to Windows and was free. How could it possibly fail to sweep the expensive and proprietary Microsoft Windows from the desktop?

Like the color eInk advocates....the Linux folk missed key factors in what it would take to succeed. They over values their preference for Linux and under estimated the real obstacles.

And thus....your comparison was quite appropriate. For “Linux in the desktop”....but not “Linux in general”
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