The article argues with two strawman claims and (unsurprisingly) wins. The first one is that the "year of the Linux desktop" jokes mean that the Linux desktop (

The article argues with two strawman claims and (unsurprisingly) wins. The first one is that the "year of the Linux desktop" jokes mean that the Linux desktop (or something else in computing) is impossible with open source, and the second one is that they mean no one uses Linux on the desktop. In reality, the "year of the Linux desktop" is a joke because it illustrates how far Linux is from mainstream adoption for desktop computing - a fact. A "year of the Linux machine" (servers, Android, Chromebooks) perhaps would not be a joke anymore as it was in Ballmer's Microsoft days. The "year of the Linux desktop" still is.