Linux is 20 years old this year, and for most of those years I’ve been hearing about how the ‘Year of the Linux desktop’ is coming. It’s not coming. Linux it’s stuck permanently at a 1% market share. And that’s where it’ll be ten years from now.
The 'Year of the Linux desktop' isn't coming - ZDNet (blog)
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Now, I’m no anti-Linux zealot. I like Linux. I like it a lot. I happen to think that it serves a valuable purpose in offering the world a free operating system that people can do with as they please. I also think that Ubuntu is well beyond the point where it’s certainly easy enough for anyone who can install Windows to install it onto a PC. As long as there aren’t any hardware issues (which are more likely on portable systems than desktops), then it’s as easy, if not easier, to manage as Windows. Many consumers, in particular those who do most of their computing through the browser, would be more than happy with Linux … if they knew about it.The 'Year of the Linux desktop' isn't coming - ZDNet (blog)
