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Nonsense. For anyone paying attention, it's been the year of desktop Linux since KDE 3.5. And it's only getting better.

And fedora is amazing. OP has no idea what's going on.

Well I work on the kernel for a living, so I feel like I have at least some idea. The quality of a distro on your hardware has nothing to do with it. I don't think you understood anything I said about why it's a failed segment.

Saying desktop is "dying" implies it will go away to the point of becoming insignificant. This is ridiculous - what would fill the gap for gamers, creators, professionals, business, and engineers? Tablets, gaming consoles and phones?

Shrinking segment, absolutely. Especially for the casual home-user segment. But leading with exaggerated flamebait is not welcome here, as I'm sure you are aware.

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