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So I installed Arch Linux... Is this it?
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Also, I never saw anyone saying anything about a "year of the Linux Desktop". It's just a meme.
Both were a thing in discussions many years ago. That's why they became a meme.
But since then it's basically only used ironically because people quickly noticed they're a meme.
It was certainly said seriously in the late 1990s and early 2000s. It was the kind of phrase you'd find in computer magazines that came with a Linux CD-ROM stuck to the cover.
This guy from Intel claims to have been the first to use it in 1999, but I think it was a more widely used hype phrase around that time, when desktop Linux was becoming just about usable.