The 'Year of the Linux Desktop' is bullshit for the same reason that the 'Year of the Mercedes Highway' is bullshit. Not everybody drives a Mercedes, and not ev

The 'Year of the Linux Desktop' is bullshit for the same reason that the 'Year of the Mercedes Highway' is bullshit. Not everybody drives a Mercedes, and not everybody wants to 'drive' a Linux Desktop. The only people who scream about the 'Year of the Linux Desktop' are the proselytising fanbois. I stopped being one of those years ago. Who cares if Joe Sixpack wants Windows on his desktop. As long as I have Linux on my desktop, I don't give a rats about Joe. Those of us that use Linux had our own 'Year of the Linux Desktop' at some time time in the past. My own 'Year of the Linux Desktop' was 2001, and which followed on from my 'Year of the UNIX Desktop' which was 1991. Interestingly, I personally never had a 'Year of the Windows Desktop'. (I went directly from a MSDOS CLI to a UNIX CLI to a UNIX Desktop several years before Windows 3.0 even came out. When I finally bothered to have a look at Windows 3.1, I couldn't believe how ugly and primitive it was.) And yes, I use lots and lots of xterms on my six virtual desktops. In fact, if the output of the program I am using does not depend on an image, I will be invoking it from an xterm. I eschew those new-fangled IDEs. They get in the way of my curses-based text-editor, make, and CLI to run that compiled program.