Corel Linux first launched in 1999, from the same company that at the time owned the WordPerfect word processing software. While it was made to compete with Microsoft's Windows it quickly died off.

Anyone else remember Corel Linux?

  • atzanteol@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    11 months ago

    Yes, the problem is that the main reason people used Linux was because it was Free Software.

    Well, to be fair that was what the nerds using it at the time wanted. They weren’t Corel’s target consumer though.

    • erwan@lemmy.ml
      5·
      11 months ago

      Sure, but I don’t know what their value proposition for their customers was. Except “we want to take a piece of the cake from Microsoft”, which their customers didn’t care about.

      Why would anyone use that instead of Windows?