On: Microsoft mandating Secure Boot on ARM, making Linux installs difficult

[wavephorm]

  There just isn't that many people who want to run Linux on their computers.

Yes there is. I know lots of people who run Linux on their desktop. And I bet there's probably even more people that would be interested in a Linux tablet. The argument that Linux is this totally obscure precious little snowflake just doesn't work anymore.

[rbanffy → wavephorm]

I too know a lot of people who love Linux. But I also know much less than 1% of all mankind.

[bitwize → wavephorm]

But it is totally obscure, and will remain so until it stops sucking on the desktop.

[drivebyacct2 → bitwize]

For varying definitions of "totally", "obscure" and "sucking". In my opinion, Mac and Windows "suck" compared to my Linux desktop, but I'm not going to assert that as fact.

[wavephorm → bitwize]

1-2% of a global desktop computing market is small in percentage, but ENORMOUS in total numbers. We're talking about many, many millions of users. And that's just desktop. The potential size of a Linux tablet market is really quite big.

But none of that matters if Linux enthusiasts only want to buy a Windows tablet, and reformat it with a free version of Linux that barely works on that hardware.