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it's been a desktop/workstation os for a long while now.

• esjeon 5y ago
  Maybe I should put it this way: "2022 is the year of linux desktop!"
  • seanw444 5y ago
    I get that it's a meme at this point, but I don't know why anybody thought there'd be a year of the Linux desktop. It was always going to be very gradual.
    • Underphil 5y ago
      Well, exactly. And for those of us who've used it for years now, every year has been 'the year of the Linux desktop'.
  • Shared404 5y ago
    Every year can be the year of the Linux Desktop if we believe hard enough! Jokes aside, it's in a really good place. With everything being web based now, Flatpak being a defacto "can run anywhere" target for proprietary apps, community based wrappers for most of said apps which don't have official builds, Distro's like *buntu[0] and Fedora which are easy to install/use, Valve pushing Proton, and Windows pushing away enthusiasts, it could actually happen. Even better would be a company selling chromebook-grade hardware with one of the above mentioned distro's preinstalled in physical stores. I wish System76 would be able to do that, but I think it's a way's out from being feasible still. [0] Ironically, I don't actually include "Ubuntu" proper in this. Snap is a dealbreaker for me. Mint and Pop are my favorite *buntu's, followed by Ubuntu Server with Snap removed and a DE installed.