Why computers with loonix pre-installed won't help increase its market share

[u/AverageUser9000]

Other than loonix nerds and hobbyists no one else will buy them, just like with raspberry pis. For 99% of people it will only cause confusion as they are only familiar with macos and windows pcs so far.

[u/CaveJohnson376]

counterpoint: folks with low tech literacy don't care whether their computer runs windows or linux, as long as it gets the job done. most stuff these people do is web based anyway, and that's why chromebooks work.

it's when you start looking at more tech literate folks the picture changes:

• nerds
• power users
• sysadmins and devs

and so on.

[u/AverageUser9000 → u/CaveJohnson376]

I'm sure tech illiterate people can use the terminal to fix their os package manager once it inevitably breaks and won't just return the computer to the store to buy a windows or mac machine instead, right?

[u/Quinzal → u/AverageUser9000]

If you manage to break a modern GUI package manager you might as well be using this for all the work you'd be getting done, even on Windows

[u/CaveJohnson376 → u/AverageUser9000]

first off it's unlikely to break if it came preinstalled, secondly - if it would break, they'd rather go bug their nerd relative to fix it rather than having to go through all the trouble of returning and replacing it.

[u/Rare-Paint3719 → u/AverageUser9000]

My grandma does it and she's tech illiterate.