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I wasn't being crisp in my definitions, I'm using Linux to refer to the OS on desktop. My bad for any confusion.
by chillacy 8y ago
I wasn't being crisp in my definitions, I'm using Linux to refer to the OS on desktop. My bad for any confusion.
- yellowapple 8y agoNo worries. It's worth clarifying specifically because of how many user-facing software stacks are indeed built on top of Linux. Still, I feel like the only reason the Year of the Linux Desktop hasn't "arrived" is because we keep moving the goalposts on what "Linux Desktop" means (and/or maintain an unnecessarily strict definition of it), probably because we do mean "GNU Desktop" or "GNOME Desktop" or "KDE Desktop" or "X11 Desktop" or something along those lines when we say "Linux Desktop". Would you count ChromeOS as a desktop Linux? If not, why?
- chillacy 8y agoIt hadn't crossed my mind when I wrote the post because I was in a thread about Windows (so in my mind it was desktop Windows vs a "linux distro" like Ubuntu, Cent, Debian, etc). But I suppose ChromeOS should count too since it runs on laptops and desktop computers. Of course Linux (the kernel) is much more dominant on mobile because of Android. But then again Android is indirectly supported by Google ad revenue and so would contradict the original claim in the thread I'm responding to: > Linux seems to be doing just fine keeping software maintained without ads or harvesting data.