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“Linux Desktop is DOA?” (December 30, 1998) Well not that much changed. (The submission comment talks how 1999 will be the year of the Linux desktop.)
by runn1ng 7y ago
“Linux Desktop is DOA?” (December 30, 1998)
Well not that much changed. (The submission comment talks how 1999 will be the year of the Linux desktop.)
- patsplat 7y agoReading this on an Android phone... Some might argue it's an abuse of open source but it is Linux nonetheless.
- TheRealDunkirk 7y agoIt was. RedHat with Ximian Desktop and Crossover Office was peak desktop Linux.
- jacquesm 7y agoIt was peak desktop, not peak desktop Linux, and the bulk of the smartphones that took the place of those desktops do in fact run Linux.
- kragen 7y agoLast year, to pick an arbitrary time period, it looks like manufacturers sold about 260 million computers running Microsoft operating systems, about 1.1 billion computers running Linux, and about 280 million computers running iOS, not counting embedded processors and servers that don't have their own displays. So your comment is correct, but only in the trivial sense that the UI on most computers has abandoned the "desktop" metaphor. A much bigger issue is that now people have much less freedom on all of these platforms, in much the way I wrote about in this essay in 1999: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/kragen-software.html https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/kragen-software.html