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Well the year of the Linux desktop never came, it seems.
by shp0ngle 10y ago
Well the year of the Linux desktop never came, it seems.
- hedora 10y agoIf you define "desktop" as 'not a portable computer', I suspect MacOS will drop a lot, percentage wise. Maybe Linux is already #2 in that market niche. Plenty of rack mounted linux machines run firefox/chrome...
- coldtea 10y agoAnd if you define desktop as "linux running computer" Linux totally dominates the category. But "year of the Linux desktop" has a clear and well defined meaning since 1999 or so -- it's about people running Linux (and Linux userland, not Android) on their personal computers, whether desktops or laptops.
- pjmlp 10y agoAlso Android has very few Linux exposed to application developers, Google could change it for something else and only OEMs would be pissed off. Only these APIs are allowed to be used. https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/libs.html https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/libs.html
- Pxtl 10y agoYeah, but the year of the Linux handheld has been here for quite some time. When do we get LibreOffice and Blender for AOSP?
- pjmlp 10y agoGood luck, this is the set of allowed native API on Android. https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/libs.html https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/libs.html As of Android 7, if the application tries to link to system libraries not part of that list, it will just get killed. https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2016/06/improving-stability-with-private-cc.html https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2016/06/improving-...
- herbst 10y agoHonestly i am happy we have those 2.2% more or less consistently. Last time it dropped to 2.1 people started to suspect linux is dying...