It's always about what you choose to focus on. I'm a guy who came of age in the middle of the PC revolution and has been daily driving Linux for over a decade.

It's always about what you choose to focus on. I'm a guy who came of age in the middle of the PC revolution and has been daily driving Linux for over a decade. In the last few years we've seen first Valve with SteamOS, and now 37signals with Omarchy, release Linux distros which are absolutely great for their target audience and function as a general purpose operating system just fine. Once might just be a fluke... Twice is a pattern starting to emerge. Are we witnessing the beginning of a new operating system ecosystem where you only have to be a billion dollar company to produce a viable operating system instead of a trillion dollar one? How many of our assumptions about computing are based on the fact that for 30+ years, only Microsoft, Apple and Google got to do a consumer OS? And a preponderance of the little components that make up this "new" OS ecosystem were developed by some of the most radical software freedom fighters we've got. Is this a long shot I'm thinking about, you bet. But the last time I was this excited about the future I was a teenager and most homes still didn't have a PC.