If Linux had Windows market share for desktop OS, it would be as shit as windows or ever worse

If Linux had Windows market share for desktop OS, it would be as shit as windows or ever worse

it's already worse

WRONG

forums would actually have solutions
companys would release drivers for it
it would have more software support

it'd be leading the industry basically

No

Wrong

If you understood anything about Linux, you wouldn't make such retarded accusations. As smoothly as your Windows 10 runs your shitty games, it's actually a huge crapfest under the hood.

It would be better like it is now. It would just have access to the shitty and useless freemium software and porn.mp4.sh malware like windows.

Every single manufacturer would bundle their own distro and package manager. each would have bloatware baked into their kernel that you couldn't remove.

it would be pretty shit desu senpai

RIGHT

>62943959
>implying it isnt already hot garbage under the hood

It would have a fuckload of viruses.

fpbp

Right, because MacOS is full of viruses too. MacOS' userbase know nothing about tech and is a perfect target for viruses, yet there's really no viruses on it.


Linux is not root by default so viruses can't damage your system as harshly as they can damage Windows. Besides, on Linux you download most software through a trusted package manager instead of fishing some shady printer drivers from ad-ridden websites.

The only reason Windows has the market share it does today is because of 2 things that happened in the early 90s.

1. Windows 3.11, 95, and 98 was aggressively pushed on to every fucking PC on the market. There was no other viable choice at the time.

2. The PC gaming explosion happened at the same time. It was an experience that a lot of consoles just couldn’t match and Windows was the main OS on home computers unless you used a Mac.

If it wasn’t for those 2 things, nobody would give a fuck about Windows today. If you could go back in time and put Linux where windows stood, it would be everywhere.

You will soon realize that correcting b8 posts is pointless.

And you're forgetting
3. Windows was designed to be easy to pirate and they didn't enforce/prosecute violations ensuring that it spreads. I got my first genuine Windows in 2009 when I bought a laptop.

It was mainly to be informative for young anons.
Absolutely. For the longest time, everybody had a pirated version of 98SE in their collection.

> Every single manufacturer would bundle their own distro and package manager
Is this the situation with Android now? No? Okay, it'd be the same with Linux

Yea, they were able to on Android and quite many tried, but turns out this isn't popular except behind the great firewall of China.

> bloatware baked into their kernel that you couldn't remove
No. Not really with the GPL and people being able to choose what sucks less.

Oh sure, maybe there'd be another extreme bundleware phase Dell for a while, but we'd just not buy it.

Something like Metro or Windows 10 privacy destruction wouldn't stand either. Everyone would buy the alternatives.

Fucking hell, this thread is heading the wrong direction. What I meant by creating it is that most of you shit on windows regarding it's lack of customization, security, updates whenever the fuck winshit wants and other crap. But if Linux had the same market share for desktop, it would have no choice but to become same shit as windows is right now because give a retarded user (which is like 90%) an option to not install updates and he will fuck shit up.

Yup, and pirated 2k, and xp... :p

>Google problem I have on Windows
>5 pages of pajeets asking basic troubleshooting
>another 5 pages of randoms forum points whoring
>5 more pages of shitty advices
>Andrei64RU gives a one line solution somewhere on 17th page which no one notices and the thread continues to this day since 2014

>StartPaged problem I have on one of Linux distro (Ubuntu, Debian, Arch)
>step by step instruction to working solution on the first page
>links to working wikis

f p b p as usual

No because there are many Os that use Linux, you don't have the same option with Winshit.

What's with all the linux shills and broken english?

>Google problem i have on Windows
>Step by step instruction to a working solution on the first or second google solution

>Google problem i'm having with Linux
>Only 1 relevant result of someone having the exact same issue with only one other guy providing a solution that doesn't work

i don't remember the last time a solution that wasn't on the first page.

>Google problem i have on windows
>execute step by step the instructions
>don't understand
>forget about it and need to do the same again when problem re-appears

>Google problem I'm having with Linux
>only 1 relevant result : "rtfm"
>rtfm
>become smart & fix problem myself
>never google again

Depends on what you mean?

Kernel? Linux is currently the best available kernel and it will stay that way because the core maintainers give zero fucks and will reject anything they deem too insane.

Userspace? It's already a clusterfuck of speshul snowflakes and "my feelings > everything else". It's a different kind of bad than Windows, but the magnitude is comparable.

FagOs doesn't exist outside of USA.
Check out their global marketshare.

Funny how I see hundreds of MacBooks every day in Finland. Besides, are you implying that Americans aren't the main target for viruses?

Sure, malware would be more common on both Linux and Mac if they were popular, but that doesn't change the fact that Windows is more insecure by default.

Didn't mean 17th page on Google, rather than 17th page on a particular topic. I worded that poorly

you won't see a macbook if you a) dont get a job b) dont go to school
if you do either of the above, macbooks are EVERYWHERE

funny that, you'd think with the amount of shilling on Sup Forums that there would be way more linux users out in the wild