Eh. It's happening already but won't be a single year. It will be a slow stream of people to either Linux or MacOS. Feature-wise the year of the Linux desktop happened last year, maybe the year before.
Normal people can't even deal with windows when it breaks - I just picked a gaming laptop up for $1000 off list because it "wouldn't boot" but just needed a reimage.
I really want to love Linux but man it's endlessly frustrating to have any guide be out of date or wrong since it's for another distro or just not have a GUI for doing things that are generally everyday. it's getting better but still way over a lot of users heads.
Maybe in the form of a chrome book Linux could shine for an average joe. We are already dealing with people who don't understand files or the desktop metaphor since they are only used to phones or tablets.
zamalek|2 years ago
hypercube33|2 years ago
I really want to love Linux but man it's endlessly frustrating to have any guide be out of date or wrong since it's for another distro or just not have a GUI for doing things that are generally everyday. it's getting better but still way over a lot of users heads.
Maybe in the form of a chrome book Linux could shine for an average joe. We are already dealing with people who don't understand files or the desktop metaphor since they are only used to phones or tablets.