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There's nothing to stop any company from making its own laptops with ARM processors, designing them to run Linux, and pre-installing Linux. You could do it yourself. Maybe this is your chance to become rich and famous.

Not sure why your first thought is to ride on the back of Microsoft's work...

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Having access to a large target market gives you advantageous pricing negotiation and support from SoC designers, board manufacturers, etc.

Sure, you could create a brand new electronics brand and try to market it. But it would be super expensive and take a long time to get off the ground.

Which simply avoids the issue I raised. How long has Linux been going?

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