Anarch157aThe year of Linux on the desktop is closer. Linux reaches 3% of desktops
AkariThe true year of linux is not any specific year or a userbase percentage but when linux is widely preinstalled on consumer hardware without nerds needing to recommend to people to install it themselves
The steamdeck is the first step to that future
So… About 2010? When Android phones became widespread.
That’s not a desktop.
Some would say desktops are not really consumer hardware anymore. Unfortunately. Sent from my useless black rectangle.
Androis uses linux, but that does not make it a Desktop Linux. It’s not invalid, just out of scope to this metric. It’s pretty simple.
Honestly whatever Linux Distro takes over will almost certainly be an Android or ChormeOS style bastardization where you can certainly see the lineage but it’s so locked down and so far removed from the userland and tooling we expect that the whole point of “year of the Linux desktop” is lost
FunkyClownYes and no. MacOS is basically the year of the Unix desktop and it’s still powerful and user friendly. Just fire up a terminal and it’s Unix. The benefit they have is hardware control do stuff just works and no driver hardware issues etc…
yossarianuk@FunkyClown @Trainguyrom MacOS is slower than Linux at every single benchmark I had thrown at my MacBook (dual booting with Linux) - Personally I find MacOS too limiting .
const void*I agree. Linux is great when one has the time but not the money.
However for a system that just works - MacOS is one of the best bsd distros of all time esp on arm.
Sadly MacOS also comes with the downfalls of a closed and proprietary ecosystem.
I'm not arguing this part at all, I agree with you.
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There is something of a blurry line between the two these days.
I get the "Android software isn't desktop software" argument, but then, I can also fire up up emacs in Termux on my Android phone, so that's kind of blurry too.
WhayleI remember Dell had an option back in 2013 on the XPS series...
I bought one in 2022.