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>> ubiquity of Linux and decline of Windows > Should I read this as sarcasm? It could only be sarcastic if he's referring to "Linux on the desktop." I don't

• DubiousPusher 6y ago
  Correct. I am referring to everything except desktop computing. I can see how this would be confusing as I was just referencing desktop prossesor market patterns of the 90s/00s. But I do think Windows's position in the desktop space is somewhat unsustainable at this point. I personally prefer Windows but I just don't see how a heterogenous user interface experience (with users on iOS and Android for mobile and Windows for desktop) will abide for long. I think it's only a matter of time before mobile OSes make some serious inroads to desktop. Though I suppose Google has been salivating at that thought for neaely a decade.
• cameldrv 6y ago
  If you look at the overall "computing devices with a reasonably high performance CPU" market, Linux has won the server market, and through Android, won the phone/tablet market. If you squint a bit, you can lump MacOS and iOS in this in that they have a Unix core and use a lot of the same software stack as Linux. 50 years ago, IBM owned the computing market with mainframes. They still dominate the mainframe market, that's just become a smaller and smaller portion of the overall computing market as time has gone on.