Actually Linux did take off - in a big way. Virtually all high performance computing (HPC) systems worldwide run Linux. There are a number of different Linux distributions that you can install on your PC, that come with a browser and an office productivity package. Many different consumer products run a Linux OS under the covers. The Mac OS is Unix-based (I won't go into the differences between Linux and Unix but for most conversations you can consider them essentially the same). While the total number of installs on desktop computers is dwarfed by various versions of Windows, Linux is alive and well. Inertia will pretty much guarantee that something called "Windows" will continue to have the most desktop installs into the foreseeable future. In my home, we only have Unix and Linux systems.
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Originally Posted by fw102807
I am very disappointed that Linux never took off.
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