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> Clearly there is some confusion over the title of this blog post, so I wanted to post a quick follow-up. What I mean with the title is that Linux on the Desktop lost the race for a consumer operating system. It will continue to be a great engineering workstation (that is why I am replacing the hard disk in my system at home) and yes, I am aware that many of my friends use Linux on the desktop and love it.

Was the author aware that perhaps the desire to have a 'consumer operating system' was not in the hearts and even minds of many developers of the "Linux" ecosystem?

You're a HN user. I think it's safe to say that you're more technically educated than the average user - which is where Linux has failed.

Agreed. Reading this on my Ubuntu 16.04 laptop. I may head over to my office and read it on my Ubuntu desktop later!

(That said, I may in fact be part of the "developer culture" that surrounds desktop linux according to the article)

Arch Linux / i3wm best time investment in a long time

Agreed, on opensuse 42.2

Granted, the state of linux on desktop was much different in 2012 than it is today. Back then UEFI support was garbage and you had to fiddle around and use things like rEFInd to get it to even boot.

Ubuntu clearly has not stepped up their game in terms of rendering dates.