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> Well Linux was certainly designed to be a desktop. Kinda, not really. Linus stopped at the kernel, and one of the key features of a good Desktop OS is, well,
by AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y ago
> Well Linux was certainly designed to be a desktop.
Kinda, not really. Linus stopped at the kernel, and one of the key features of a good Desktop OS is, well, all that user-interface stuff above the kernel that Linus neither wrote nor prescribed a design for.
It is very clear from the way Linux Desktops work and the way Linux development culture works that the Linux ecosystem is designed first and foremost as a UNIX server with some thought put into being a workstation for UNIX developers.