Today a coworker said that he had installed Windows 7 on a laptops that came with SUSE Linux, and he said that Windows should be better because it has a larger installed base.
It seems that many see quantity as a measure of quality, which more often than it's not true. In most cases, a large installed base doesn't mean that the software is good or the best possible option for the task at hand.
Windows has such a lead mainly because most people don't know they have other options, or just use it because is what it comes with it.
Now things are changing because of Apple, with it making more inroads into the consumers minds. With that, people are aware that there are other operating systems out there.
With that awareness, the chance that some Linux distros might have a chance to make inroads into the average user. Distros like Ubuntu, Linux Mint and Zorin OS are quite user friendly and stable. Not only that, users have the at the disposal all the software they'll need to run their digital lives.
Not only that, there are some places where there is a need to have specialized operating systems to run applications that general purpose operating system can't handle. This is not a matter of quality, but having something that better suits the needs of the tasks needed to be taken care of.
The quality of any software should be measured not by it's installed base, but on how well it does the work it was designed to do.
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