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Geofferey Eakins • Edited

Linux powers more devices than one could possibly imagine. When you really think about it the market share of devices running Linux overwhelms even that of MS and Apple. Just counting Android devices alone it's basically taken over world. The biggest strength and weakness of Linux is it's fragmentation between distros, userspace tools and kernel which causes a lot of the problems people seem to experience. At same time that fragmentation offers great customization for tinkers and an extensive ability to provide utilitarian applications. The lack of ubiquity, however makes it a not so good replacement for something as ubiquitous as MS Win/Office, which we have become familiar with. People often confuse distros with Linux and a disliked distro could ultimately give bad impressions of Linux as whole. Chances are that you already use Linux and it is for you, you just aren't recognizing the form it takes on. If you were to slap a penguin 🐧 on every device running Linux you'd be surprised to say the the least.

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Bishwas Bhandari

Yeah, but I am here talking about the Linux based desktop OS.

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