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> only having dial up speed - that's strictly a 90s problem.

Dial up was widespread well into the early 2000's, and even then ADSL started to spread slowly.

> You don't see them in stores because there is not enough demand for them

There is no demand because, again, the market is a lie. One OS is forced to consumers, on the computers they buy in the stores, they use at school, they use at work. That's exactly what I'm saying.

> Very easy to find them online to buy.

Computer literacy of the population is not comparable to the one of people on HN, so no, I wouldn't say it is as easy as buying a linux computer online than buying any computer offline.




Bro you are really arguing for the sake of arguing now.

> Dial up was widespread well into the early 2000's, and even then ADSL started to spread slowly.

Cable became common in the early 2000s, and even if you couldn't get it at home you could go somewhere that had decent speed, certainly to download a 600mb ISO.

Not bothering to address the rest of your contrarian points.




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