Is it finally the year of Linux on the desktop?
But seriously, the work System76 is doing is really great. PopOS is really nice to use. The attention it is getting is well deserved.
But seriously, the work System76 is doing is really great. PopOS is really nice to use. The attention it is getting is well deserved.
1. It's usable enough and it's certainly polished and much more importantly
2. The M1 Air is the laptop I always dreamed of. Fast, doesn't get hot, SILENT. It's worth the trade-off for me, but I hope Linux on M1 succeeds and I get to run Linux again.
Been there done that.
Ex-Linux zealot, whose digital trail even includes emails using M$ on the signature.
So no difference than using Windows 10S, 10X or whatever other UWP only variants Microsoft has released thus far.
Not at all the same thing. /s
Not at all the same thing.
Derrick, Anne and Louisa won't switch if it doesn't support their shinny new laptop.
By the way, I do use Linux since Slackware 2.0, winning Windows desktop market share was the original goal of The Year of Linux Desktop.
Now one can to turn it around to make it mean a slightly different goal, so that after 30 years it can finally tick the box.
Ironically the Year of Linux Desktop has been achieved indeed.
Derrick, Anne and Louisa don't need to switch, because it already runs on a VM installed via Windows Store.
Projects don't pivot just because it feels good doing so.
Same applies to Windows on the server room, WSL did not became a standard option despite the years of Virtual Box and VMWare just because Microsoft though it would be nice to do so.
No it doesn’t. It just acknowledges that times change, software gets better, and idea is made more accomplishable instead of betting on a single year where some sort of great migration happens (which was silly).
I would say it's gonna be exploding after steam deck launches.I think it's gonna be higher than 2%,maybe 3% this year.Would be surprised if it gets past 5%, but that's a decent stretch(though not impossible at all).
If that can be broken, I don't think 10% is infeasible. Though I think Microsoft would have to really screw up to lose their status as the "default" OS.
Considering that the hope behind this term was about winning the desktop user share from Windows, and not just "being usable" on the desktop, or "being used" on the desktop, no.
It's not uncommon for us to get a machine which is limping along on Windows 7 for the 15th year in a row, add an SSD and reinstall 7, 10, or rarely Linux Mint depending on how stubborn the user is on not upgrading to 10 and how open they are to change.
Every year can be that year if you just use it.