Why Linux operating system does not have a greater market share?

Anonymous

∙ 12y ago

Updated: 8/20/2019

Outside of the desktop market, Linux is actually making a killing and is in most cases even more widely deployed than Windows.

On the desktop, however, Microsoft has taken a real stranglehold on the PC market dating back to the 80s that no one has been able to break. However, both Linux and Mac OS X have been eroding Windows' market share, very slowly.

Today they're still facing the stanglehold. Microsoft enjoys a position of essentially dictating to desktop OEMs what they can and cannot do, and often when OEMs try to create Linux desktop computers, Microsoft jacks up the price of their operating system. This alone is enough of a barrier for OEM Linux installations.

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∙ 12y ago

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