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This time it's really going to happen, I just know it!
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Can we stop with this? It was an over hyped slogan and we can give it a rest. People are slowly switching to Linux and that's good enough
The slogan is a complete meme at this point. A meme that indicates it's the year of the linux desktop!
Yeah, it just comes off sarcastic to me, which apparently means people think Linux is not popular enough to talk about or something. I don't know, it just rubs me the wrong way.
You can like something and still make fun of it, you know?
You can, but Linux needs good press, and many would see this "joke" as another reason to avoid the whole ecosystem.
If someone sees it that way, that's not something any of us can do anything about.
That's not true. Attitudes can slowly change over time. Reminding people "it's not there yet" doesn't serve that.
It is sarcastic.
Wanna know the first time I heard "This is the Year of the Linux Desktop!"? 1999.
Yes, nineteen ninety-nine. Twenty-five years ago.
Linux as a desktop is still a laugh. It still doesn't come close to Windows of twenty-five years ago.
But it's killer as a server, or a purpose-built system. My NAS/VM server kicks ass under Linux, way better than running windows. Even VMware recently switched their desktop virtualization to using Linux. This is where Linux shines.
You could make a Windows killer desktop, except which distro? Which shell? Which set of base tools/utilities? Define "killer desktop" in the Linux community.
Windows is the general purpose OS, with a common shell. That's what MS did, settle on one UI (mostly), so it's a common experience everywhere.