Comment by umanwizard

I don't really care about "the Linux Desktop" and I don't quite understand why so many people do. I use Linux and it works great for me. If it never makes inroads among my non-technical friends and family, who cares? They are doing fine without it.

I guess this is what survives of the 90s/early-2000s Slashdot mentality where people defend software for ideological reasons and get in Linux vs. Windows fanboy fights, but I think that's anachronistic today. Linux Desktop is never going to take over among average people (increasingly many of whom don't even use desktops at all) and that's fine.