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  • Remember, the days of compiling was back when we were running this on 300-500Mhz single core CPUs with 5400RPM spinning rust and RAM amounts in the hundreds of MB.

    The embedded system I was putting this on was a 300Mhz single core low power AMD processor with 256MB and a laptop 4200RPM 4GB drive. And yeah, it probably took over a day to compile everything… but it ran much faster than a stock kernel as I could customize the system to only have what it needed and leverage the on-chip ssl and video acceleration support. I used it for a NAS and home server for years.










  • Momentum and lack of time and awareness.

    Most people don’t associate Windows as anything they can change. It’s what came with their PC, it currently works, it does what they want, the only thing they do is play that game and maybe surf the web… and even if they do know and care, when they get home late from work, the first thing they think is “let’s eat and then unwind with a game and go to bed”.

    If more computers came with Linux from the factory, you’d see a better uptick because it’s done, it works, etc.