Red Hat and Suse have been doing this for years. Ubuntu will never be the windows killer and neither will OSX. It doesn't mean that they won't gain market share or be better than windows. Its just the nature of the market. People will stick with what they are used to which is windows. The only way linux would take over the market is if the foss community put all their effort into one single distro, standardized packages, stood by one gui tool kit, one default set of applications per task, easy to use gui system settings and guided setup tools, used a rolling release cycle where you would never have to reinstall, change the gpl to allow proprietary drivers to link to the kernel, get the whole computer industry to switch to open source codecs, pay adobe and others to port their software or created real alternatives that people want to use and then have the OEMs preinstall it on their systems. After all that you advertise the hell out of it. Give it away on the net or ship boxed versions to retail outlets to sell.
One ring to rule them all.
It's not going to happen anytime soon if at all. The foss community is too divided for this to ever happen. Too many cooks spoil the soup. There are so many projects that do basically the same things just in slightly different ways. Choice is good in specialized markets. Devices designed for single tasks where the os and gui is crafted around that device. Thin clients where a only hand full of apps need to be running in a office environment or point of sale terminal. Internet kiosks. Linux is already taking over in these reguards.
Maybe in ten years when Microsoft finally destroys itself, Steve Jobs clones himself and Ubuntu 28.10 Silly Sheeple gets released we can finally say that "This is the year of the Linux desktop!"
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Red Hat and Suse have been doing this for years. Ubuntu will never be the windows killer and neither will OSX. It doesn't mean that they won't gain market share or be better than windows. Its just the nature of the market. People will stick with what they are used to which is windows. The only way linux would take over the market is if the foss community put all their effort into one single distro, standardized packages, stood by one gui tool kit, one default set of applications per task, easy to use gui system settings and guided setup tools, used a rolling release cycle where you would never have to reinstall, change the gpl to allow proprietary drivers to link to the kernel, get the whole computer industry to switch to open source codecs, pay adobe and others to port their software or created real alternatives that people want to use and then have the OEMs preinstall it on their systems. After all that you advertise the hell out of it. Give it away on the net or ship boxed versions to retail outlets to sell. One ring to rule them all. It's not going to happen anytime soon if at all. The foss community is too divided for this to ever happen. Too many cooks spoil the soup. There are so many projects that do basically the same things just in slightly different ways. Choice is good in specialized markets. Devices designed for single tasks where the os and gui is crafted around that device. Thin clients where a only hand full of apps need to be running in a office environment or point of sale terminal. Internet kiosks. Linux is already taking over in these reguards. Maybe in ten years when Microsoft finally destroys itself, Steve Jobs clones himself and Ubuntu 28.10 Silly Sheeple gets released we can finally say that "This is the year of the Linux desktop!"