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Re:Developer publishes patch to enable Windows 7 and 8.1 upd... by type0 on Friday April 21, 2017 @09:42AM (#14165484)
> Linux hasn't hit the desktop market because you can not just go to a store and buy one.

Remember the 90s when you could do that, at least the smaller shops used to have some Linux CDs. What happened, why is none seemingly interested in selling it? What i mean, the smaller hw shops that are still around could sell NVMe disks preloaded with Linux distros, they could also sell enclosures so that users would be able to run it via usb 3 as a portable operating system. Let's face it, dual booting is dead, for those with interest in Linux but who can't escape the Windows trap maybe could run it on portable storage.

Re:Developer publishes patch to enable Windows 7 and 8.1 upd... by iamNumber4 on Friday April 21, 2017 @10:07AM (#14165722)
I do remember buying the install media back in the day, you used to be able to get RedHat, Suse, and FreeBSD (if you were a Unix purist) too. The problem then was the problem right now, you can't buy a pre-loaded Linux PC at the store.

Imagine if RedHat back in 96-97 could have got HP, Dell, Compaq, etc... to sell a pre-loaded product. How many more people would have been exposed to Linux. Good or bad, exposure is exposure.