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Gatekeeping from what? Linux is a server OS.

• pjmlp 6y ago
  Finally given up on "Year of Desktop Linux"?
  • the_af 6y ago
    The year of Desktop Linux arrived for me about a decade ago. Now I work, game, watch movies, edit graphics and photos, all on Linux. I like and want the powerful combination of the CLI and GUI applications.
    • pjmlp 6y ago
      Finally met one of the happy 1% from Steam surveys.
      • eitland 6y ago
        Hi, here's another one :-) Happy Linux user since 2004/5. Everything else is painful in some way or another.
      • the_af 6y ago
        Also GOG and Humble Bundle ;) It's generally a joy to use Linux. In some cases (like HP LaserJet printers) even more painless than Windows and macOS!
    • blub 6y ago
      The point of "Linux on the desktop" was not that it happens for you and the other commenter, but that Linux becomes mainstream. :) Never happened and unless something extraordinary occurs it likely never will. And Android doesn't count, obviously.
      • the_af 6y ago
        True. But it also has the connotation that Linux is "not good enough" for the desktop, and this is false. Popularity has a lot of factors, sadly. A user-friendly Linux like Ubuntu is indeed "good enough" and has been so for years.
  • otabdeveloper4 6y ago
    I've been running desktop Linux for 20 years, but this isn't a hill I'm gonna die on. Kernel and userland developers treat Linux as a server OS first and foremost, and that's where the funding goes.