This is the year of the Linux desktop? I thought that was 2002. With KDE3 and GNOME 2, for the first time you could mail your elderly relatives unsolicited st

This is the year of the Linux desktop? I thought that was 2002. With KDE3 and GNOME 2, for the first time you could mail your elderly relatives unsolicited stacks of CD-Rs and they were running Linux in no time! On Reddit, someone else with a longer memory thinks it was 1998. [1] Sadly, I think we're past the peak unless some major new development shakes things up. And, since major new desktop UI developments are more likely to come from Microsoft or Apple than from Linux developers, they are more likely to put desktop Linux further behind rather than breath new life into it. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/3038d4/when_was_the_first_year_of_the_linux_desktop/ https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/3038d4/when_was_the_...