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Linux rules the world. Where to next?
- mc42 10y agoIt already rules space [1], the microscopic [2], and the server market. One can hope that the advent of Wayland and a more "modern" way to draw items on screen will prompt the rapid development of user desktop applications, even if many are little more than a front-end for command-line tools. Shame that any "sunset" of a Linux Desktop Environments / API prompts further fragmentation of their marketshare. From what I've read, Windows' Win32 API, though often broken, stays reliably broken. This seems to be a interesting distinction in comparison to Linux, and why I believe Linux may never conquer the desktop. [1] - http://www.computerweekly.com/blog/Open-Source-Insider/International-Space-Station-adopts-Debian-Linux-drops-Windows-Red-Hat-into-airlock http://www.computerweekly.com/blog/Open-Source-Insider/Inter... [2] - http://www.computerworld.com/article/2468248/high-performance-computing/high-energy-linux--linux---the-large-hadron-collider.html http://www.computerworld.com/article/2468248/high-performanc...