Unless something radically changes in the near future I don’t see how Linux can rise up to be a mainstream desktop OS. ... Desktop Linux has to be made someho

Unless something radically changes in the near future I don’t see how Linux can rise up to be a mainstream desktop OS. ... Desktop Linux has to be made somehow profitable for companies to start investing more heavily in it. This is the hard, but honest truth. As long as the primarily development is carried out with little (or no funding), mostly by volunteers the hour of the desktop Linux will never come. The radical change is tablets. Google is investing heavily in Android and will likely see big profits (indirectly). I'm writing this from a Windows laptop because my main Ubuntu laptop got screwed while upgrading. Everything that worked perfectly well for 3 years is now botched because of an "upgrade". The hour of the Linux desktop may eventually come but it will be irrelevant by then.