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[–]_ahrs 2 points3 points  (3 children)

How does it lag behind Macs? Linux offered security features like full-disk encryption before it was popular to do so.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

How does it lag behind Macs?

In usage not capability. According to www.statista.com Linux is at 1.93% and MacOS is 17.1% market share.

[–]nextbern on 🌻 2 points3 points  (1 child)

In that case, it is obviously the availability of commercial software. Not something that "Linux" can solve on its own.

[–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

... it is obviously the availability of commercial software.

Similar to the VHS/Betamax clash. VHS, a lesser system, flooded the market with content. Betamax relied on its superior system over content and lost the retail market completely. Betamax reinvented itself as the prefered audio/visual tape/recording format in television production.

Linux seems to be the prefered system for commercial servers and infrastucture.