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All fair points, although I do have one nitpick: >> the "year of the Linux desktop" that everyone's been hoping will arrive for at least a decade Everyone mig
by slantyyz 9y ago
All fair points, although I do have one nitpick:
>> the "year of the Linux desktop" that everyone's been hoping will arrive for at least a decade
Everyone might be a little hyperbolic, considering that the majority of people are satisfied with OSX, Windows and/or ChromeOS. And there are plenty of other people who are satisfied with Ubuntu and Mint as their desktops. I would counter that the number of people waiting for the "year of the Linux desktop" is probably a small number.
- waddlesplash 9y agoI meant "everyone" in the sense of "everyone who already uses Linux/BSD/etc." not "everyone" = "general population", sorry for the ambiguity. And of course one can be satisfied with Ubuntu and Mint as desktops. It's just that when it breaks, you really have to know your way around the plumbing -- which end users don't.
- slantyyz 9y agoEven then, for the "everyone who already uses Linux/BSD/etc.", I would posit that most of them are probably using Macs and/or aren't waiting for "The Linux Desktop" to arrive. For a huge swath of *nix users, Mac OSX accomplished everything they wanted from a "Linux Desktop" outside of being free and open source. That probably leaves a very small number waiting for the Linux Desktop. FWIW, OSX is also unified, and requires little knowledge of the plumbing for end users.