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Comment by jimjimjim | Hacker News Reader

year of the linux desktop?

Well it already dominates everything else. I realized every aspect of programming had me interfacing with a Linux system in some way and then decided to just make the switch. I was already using Android, RasPi, IoT devices, linux web servers, linux containers, linux in a VM on Windows, and I'd probably be trying to use "bash on windows" now if I still used Windows. I finally realized that Windows was just getting in the way and decided to get a Linux computer. Honestly using Windows is a much more painful experience than Linux at this point for me.

But I'm not doing advanced document formatting like half the people on HN so I have the luxury to just get by with google docs.

It's ironic that, despite its intrinsic openness, the biggest users of Linux are in the most closed ecosystems like smartphones/tablets, Chromebooks, various proprietary IoT devices, etc. where being open-source essentially means very little to the ease of users modifying, recompiling, and tweaking the software on them.

No, it is the year of the Java desktop.

Careful, Oracle might use this statement!

Google could have avoided all this mess, if they have done it cleanly together with Sun, or bothered to buy them afterwards.

There are quite a few commercial Java vendors with customized versions, like e.g. IS2T with MicroEJ that have licensing agreements in place.

http://www.microej.com/

If Google loses the trial, they will be paying much more than they would have spent.

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