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Will this finally be the year of the Linux desktop? Nope.

• Agathos 10y ago
  The year of Linux on the desktop was around 2010. The trouble is, I'm still waiting for the year of Linux on the laptop.
  • cmdrfred 10y ago
    I have a cheap chromebook with Crouton and I'm very happy for the price. Cheap, light and I get about 10 hours of battery life.
  • mr_overalls 10y ago
    Ubuntu on a Dell Latitude here. Windows runs in Virtualbox. It just works.
    • lttlrck 10y ago
      How is the default battery life? I had to use pretty aggressive tlp settings to get within 50% of what windows gets on an XPS out of the box.
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  • ZoF 10y ago
    Yeah, I was just joking really. (Although it's true, if by 'year of the linux desktop' you mean 'year it gets >10% marketshare') My NAS runs CentOS and I have Arch/Ubuntu on my home pc's, but I still dual boot Windows on one because gaming. The 'I wonder who else will switch to Debian 8 like me' just struck me as comical. I would be extremely surprised if MS lost any meaningful amount of marketshare from Win10, especially to linux distros.
  • arthurfm 10y ago
    > The trouble is, I'm still waiting for the year of Linux on the laptop. Do Chromebooks count?