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I don't think it's "Linux" that should be advertised, but Desktop OS distributions in this case.
What's going to catch people's eye is going to be the desktop experience, the killer apps that come with it, and why it's better than Windows or Mac, in which case, it isn't yet.
It's getting close, but it's not there yet.
Wut. We got there 10 years ago when Ubuntu was released. The years that followed, half of the people I meet would already be running Linux. Mostly because they were poor and it was the easiest and cheepest option available.
Where did you meet those people? Because most of the people I met during university, while doing a software engineering degree, were software engineering students who all used Linux in some way.
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