But that was nonsense, because clearly THIS is the year of the Linux desktop.
And those where really optimistic, when I used Mandrake 9.1 many years ago, almost none knew about Linux, half of the HW didn't worked, no big vendors sold machines with it and most of the distros, if not all, couldn't even play mp3.
I'm not even sure I would like the year of the Linux desktop to come, most users don't care about freedom, customization. good design or privacy. What would happen if all Windows users came to our side?, what would happen when 90% of now Linux users stop caring about those attributes?, things like when Ubuntu got bashed because it got Amazon ads in their main menu, wouldn't happen anymore, blobs would start to proliferate, we would have scenarios like Nvidia, where the FOSS alternative is almost unusable but nobody cares because the blob just works, everything would be chaos and horror and fire would fall from the skies!, or not, who knows. Hopefully we'll have Slackware with its awesome shitty website, the mighty Gentoo and all the Linux craziness.
As Ian Malcolm said, "Weirdness cannot be contained. Wirdness breaks free. Weirdness... finds a way", long live FOSS
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For a decade? They were saying that already when I started using Linux in the late 1990s/early 2000s.
But that was nonsense, because clearly THIS is the year of the Linux desktop.
And those where really optimistic, when I used Mandrake 9.1 many years ago, almost none knew about Linux, half of the HW didn't worked, no big vendors sold machines with it and most of the distros, if not all, couldn't even play mp3.
I'm not even sure I would like the year of the Linux desktop to come, most users don't care about freedom, customization. good design or privacy. What would happen if all Windows users came to our side?, what would happen when 90% of now Linux users stop caring about those attributes?, things like when Ubuntu got bashed because it got Amazon ads in their main menu, wouldn't happen anymore, blobs would start to proliferate, we would have scenarios like Nvidia, where the FOSS alternative is almost unusable but nobody cares because the blob just works, everything would be chaos and horror and fire would fall from the skies!, or not, who knows. Hopefully we'll have Slackware with its awesome shitty website, the mighty Gentoo and all the Linux craziness.
As Ian Malcolm said, "Weirdness cannot be contained. Wirdness breaks free. Weirdness... finds a way", long live FOSS