Yep, my whole extended family runs Linux now, at least part time.
I used to tease my son in law the IT professional that his whole job was just running from crack to crack in MS's shaky dam, plugging up all the little cruddy software leaks. He used to defend MS saying how great it was, meanwhile my daughter the engineering manager jumped ship over to Mac and started saying "Honey, look, no worms, no viruses, no defrag".
(Mac is suspiciously
a whole lot like Llnux, more so than Apple feels comfortable with now since FOSS has been busting MS's chops recently over stealing FOSS code.)
Long story short, my son in law fell in love with Ubuntu and now all of their machines, including the Macs are now dual boot Linux machines.
Yes, you can easily teach a Mac to dual boot Linux, and many of the Apple people do this to get to certain pieces of software that not available on Mac. A Mac person will use a Linux partition and Wine just to run a few MS softwares that they can't get at all on Mac.
Mac has an issue that occasionally Apple simply abandons older OS products completely when the hardware is still good (just like MS did with XP). The unsupported Apple OS will continue to run since it isn't prone to wormies, but the softwares on it will get no neat new features. So folks take older mac products and add Linux to it so they can get current features on their software.
Apple claims to be based off of Unix and admits having some BSD code in it (which is permitted by the Berkley Software Distribution License). Where Apple is producing piles of little brown bricks for shite right now is that people can now prove the real source of some of their code from back in the day was Linux, not BSD.
FOSS license says, you include FOSS code, you turn over the whole code mass back to FOSS.
Apple isn't hated, and it does contribute to ARM and all the rest of FOSS. So, a blind eye may be turned upon Steve Job's little discretions that date back to when he was running NeXt and Apple may be given the chance to quietly fix their code to remove the "accidentally borrowed" stuff very discretely.
Meanwhile, MS has been given notice by these actions that proprietary Windroid won't be tolerated, that stealing FOSS code means they lose whatever they attach to that FOSS code to.
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Linux (Android) variants of a lot of main stream Windows softwares are being worked upon by the old Windows vendor base. They see the desktop as being a future dead end, and x386 as being abandoned by Intel starting this year. Unfortunately, like MS they are entering an already crowded marketplace a day late and a dollar short.
Microsoft and Intel are releasing even more vapor that they intend to take over the low end side of Android tablets by the end of next year. They plan to use up all of TSMC's production capacity and squeeze out them durn irritating little guys as well.
This is the #5 ranked fab company (Intel) and the #6 ranked mobile OS company (Microsoft) stating they are going to use
other people's fab lines and somebody else's OS to bust everybody else's chops.
(but just btw in tablets)
And this is with Intel still not even having a phone chip at all right now ......The Chinese Cheapie guys (no longer very small at all any more) simply smile at them. The Chinese now have their own state of the art ARM processor fab plant in production right now with 20nm ARM chips shipping this spring with 2 new 14nm lines going in as we speak for use by this fall/winter. There is floor space laid out for 2 new 10nm lines as well. No 28nm at all, just 20nm and the more modern stuff.
Remember, right now China sells 4x more stuff to themselves right now than to the entire remaining North American and European markets. And I still predict a Chinese OS (android based, yes, perhaps) will be listed in the top 5 OS products within a year. Xaomi has one that is a candidate, as is Badu.