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2026 will not be the ‘Year of Linux on the Desktop’ – and I’m glad

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2026 will not be the ‘Year of Linux on the Desktop’ – and I’m glad

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Kevin Boone: Rant: 2026 will not be the ‘Year of Linux on the Desktop’ – and I’m glad

Why are we complaining about the smallness of the proportion of desktop computers that run Linux – perhaps we should be celebrating instead?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/932674

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It’s a running joke in the Linux world: 2016 was the Year of Linux on the Desktop, apparently. Then it was 2017. Then 2018.

We’ve been making this joke since 1998.

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