The Many Alternative Computing Worlds of Linux – NYTimes.com

How come Linux is so popular in the embedded world: Android, smartphones, tablets, Raspeberry Pi and has so little success in desktop: 2%?

Try Linux Mint on your desktop, and you will get free by default: LibreOffice, Thunderbird, Pidgin, GIMP. The UI is nice and intuitive.

Just try it 🙂