Comment by globular-toast

Running Linux on a headless server or a completely custom hardware stack was always possible (for some version of possible). It was the very specific use case of Linux on PC as a PC/workstation that was problematic. It sucked in '04. It sucks a lot less now.

People who aren't interested in computing still aren't interested in computing. But, unlike back then, more people can realistically choose to do it if they want to. That's a good thing.