• tempest@lemmy.caEnglish
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    10 hours ago

    Year of the desktop has been a meme so long the people spouting it have failed to realize that the desktop itself is in decline.

    There are many many people for which a mobile phone or tablet is their only computer. If you want to count Android as a Linux distro then year of the Linux desktop has come and gone ten years ago.

    • grue@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
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      2 hours ago

      There are many many people for which a mobile phone or tablet is their only computer.

      That’s it’s own kind of disaster, TBH. As proprietary as Windows is, at least it’s mostly not DRM’d and has the right sort of interface for creating things instead of just consuming content.

  • LostXOR@fedia.io
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    11 hours ago

    I don’t think there will be a single year that stands out in terms of Linux adoption, but it’s definitely been accelerating over the past few years. I think in the next decade we’ll see Linux gain enough of a market share to be considered a mainstream OS.

  • grue@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
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    12 hours ago

    This is pretty much off-topic, but I’m too pleased about my advocacy interests converging to care.

    • floo@retrolemmy.comEnglish
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      11 hours ago

      I disagree. This may be one of the most quintessentially Lemmy posts that I’ve ever seen, lol