> There's more hacker affection for Linux than Windows, but somehow the year of Linux on the desktop was always right around the corner. Just like the year of

> There's more hacker affection for Linux than Windows, but somehow the year of Linux on the desktop was always right around the corner. Just like the year of Mac on the desktop, Linux is around 1% and Mac 5%... and Mac is backed by a multi-billion dollar company. I think it has more to do with Microsoft winning the desktop platform a long time ago than anything else. Where Linux and Mac can make a dent is in the web and mobile, and they already did.