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  • FreeBooteR69@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    It’s the advantage of advertising money and monopoly abuse. Nobody advertises linux, when’s the last time you saw a linux commercial? You don’t. You’ll never be inundated with linux or fediverse advertisements, so nobody gets to find out you exist. You’ll notice how in the media free software is never mentioned, ever, unless it’s something scary with the tired old picture of a dude in masked street garb looking to steal your families identity and make them destitute.

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      1 year ago

      Linux low market-share (in the desktop space) has less to do with marketing and more with the fact, that Microsoft has made many contracts with PC vendors and professional PC users everywhere.

      Normies don’t install any OS. Businesses don’t want to waste time and money switching over to Linux.

      Marketing in the OS space is practically irrelevant.