What is the exact qualification in order to be called “the year of the Linux desktop”? I have been using Linux on my desktop computer(s) for almost two decades. Was my year of the Linux desktop this year also?
For me, it’s when Linux was a viable desktop operating system to daily drive and still be fairly compatible with other operating systems, which was ages ago.
I feel like 50% market share is a bit steep. I think we’re well past the point where anyone can and should be running Linux on the desktop.
The possibility of it is there, and that’s good enough for me, to be honest. Saying it’s not the year until we already have dominance I feel is a bit too much to ask.
But I guess it’s about ambition. Do we want to include the downfall of Apple and Microsoft into this? Then we’ll have to wait a long time, and work very hard.
What is the exact qualification in order to be called “the year of the Linux desktop”? I have been using Linux on my desktop computer(s) for almost two decades. Was my year of the Linux desktop this year also?
@victorz @recursive_recursion When it is on more PCs than either Windows or iOS.
Is that a universally held definition?
@victorz I think the Klingons and Ferengi are having doubts, but it will do for me!
For me, it’s when Linux was a viable desktop operating system to daily drive and still be fairly compatible with other operating systems, which was ages ago.
@victorz For me, that was 1993. But I always took ‘year of the desktop’ to allude to the time when it became popular with other people.
I feel like 50% market share is a bit steep. I think we’re well past the point where anyone can and should be running Linux on the desktop.
The possibility of it is there, and that’s good enough for me, to be honest. Saying it’s not the year until we already have dominance I feel is a bit too much to ask.
But I guess it’s about ambition. Do we want to include the downfall of Apple and Microsoft into this? Then we’ll have to wait a long time, and work very hard.