Comment by gylterud

14 days 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_  14 days 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  13 days 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.

    • _carbyau_  13 days ago

      Yeah, I agree with your "unless" statement. Something has to change for the conversion rate to increase significantly.

      "Gaming is good on linux now.(except for kernel anticheats)" isn't it. In the gaming sense, that only puts it close to with Windows and with the extra hassles otherwise Linux is still behind.

      You have to recognise and value privacy to look to Linux.

pjmlp  13 days ago

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