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Re:Windows OS, Services and Apps: Network Connection Target ... by gwbas1c on Friday May 27, 2022 @10:52AM (#31530324)
(Joke) Unless you're North Korean: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Star_OS

Jokes aside:

> Had Apple not gone to OS X 20 years ago, I suspect desktop Linux would be materially further along, but with a well-designed and well-supported commercial *nix OS in the market that ships married to bespoke hardware, there's materially less motivation to make desktop Linux better for people who won't want to have to tinker to make things work.

Aren't Android and ChromeOS linux-based?

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Re:Windows OS, Services and Apps: Network Connection Target ... by ubermonkey on Friday May 27, 2022 @12:40PM (#31531605)
Android is, but nobody's running Android on the desktop.

ChromeOS is, I guess, but how much of a true desktop OS is it vs. a front-end for Google? (Not trolling; I honestly don't know because I don't use any Google products, so it's never been on my radar.)

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Re:Windows OS, Services and Apps: Network Connection Target ... by gwbas1c on Monday May 30, 2022 @12:21PM (#31560575)
The very first Chromebook was just a laptop that ran the Chrome browser. An update made it more Windows-like, but by that time I gave it away to the Digibarn.
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