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gylterud | 1 month ago

Well, with the help of Microsoft and Apple, who knows? This might just be the years of the Linux desktop!

Valve has made Linux gaming a thing. So, even normies are trying it…

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_carbyau_|1 month ago

I support your notion but my take is it will be a "slowly and then suddenly" thing.

Do you declare "Year of the Linux Desktop" when market share is more than 50% or when the rate of conversion is 2%/month due to some market mechanism?

pjmlp|1 month ago

I declare it will never go beyond WSL and Apple Virtualization Framework for normies, unless we have a second netbooks like wave with OEMs selling their pre-installed GNU/Linux distros on shops.

pjmlp|1 month ago

Thanks to a supply of games targeting Windows, developed by game studios only using Windows computers on their engineering team.