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I'm not sure it's relevant anymore actually. In the 90s there was some ongoing fight between 'good' Linux and 'evil' Microsoft Windows. Since this was the beg
by Agingcoder 4y ago
I'm not sure it's relevant anymore actually.
In the 90s there was some ongoing fight between 'good' Linux and 'evil' Microsoft Windows. Since this was the beginning of the internet (by which I mean the web) for the general public, and there was virtually no mobile computing (phones, etc), the territory to win was perceived to be the regular pc desktop.
Every year, Linux advocates would claim that this year was the year of the Linux desktop (and that Linux would topple Windows and become the dominant OS on personal computers), and every year, well, it didn't happen.
These days, the market is just different : computers are not only desktop computers, but also phones, blu ray player, tvs, smart speakers, and software running on a server is reachable through a browser.
In many ways, Linux is dominant, but simply because it took the new, much bigger,non desktop markets, and the desktop doesn't matter that much these days.
- fsflover 4y agoSo it's time to declare the year of (GNU/)Linux on mobile. 2022 year was such year for me. Now I'm using Librem 5 as a daily driver.