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The year of Linux on the desktop is closer. Linux reaches 3% of desktops
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What if we count WSL and Android?
WSL definitely. It's a gateway drug I've peddled to many a developer.
I peddle that to my coworkers for no other reason than because I don't know how to deal with Windows garbage when they run into a problem. It's more for my sanity than anything else.
WSL on my work machine is a godsend. Otherwise I would not be able to tolerate the dev environment on windows.
This is why I had to switch. It was just too clunky to get CUDA and Pytorch and Tensorflow set up in Windows. In Linux, it was a total breeze.
Edit: And then I thought, "well, wouldn't it be great if I didn't have to use Windows to use Linux?"
Yup. First comes WSL, then comes a VM, then comes the good stuffs.
Counting Android is just lying. ChromeOS and WSL are a stretch, but you can make an argument for them.
"3 billion devices run Java"
Shudders
Linux kernel is Linux kernel. Few desktops run Android, though.
Linux market share is not the same as Grub market share. Torvalds is against the GPL v3 because he explicitly does not mind locked bootloaders and signed kernels.