Laugh all you want. There will be a year of the Linux desktop
It has become a running joke."20xx will be the year of the Linux desktop." The punchline is, of course, it will never happen. But the real jape is that there will soon be a year of the Linux desktop. It's just not going to happen the way Linux fanboi have believed it will.
The Linux desktop dream has been that companies and people will realize that the Linux desktop is simply better than Windows. Part of the hope is true. TheReally. For starters, the Linux desktop is far more secure than Windows. I mean, sure, Linux has security problems. What doesn't? But Microsoft has a monthly security mea culpa day:Linux is also easy to use. Even now, people claim that Linux is hard to use. That just shows they haven't used Linux in decades.
The real problem remains that Microsoft retained its first-mover desktop operating system advantage byto its customers in the 1990s. Combine that with the simple fact that people don't like to change, and you have the real reason why neither Linux nor macOS has advanced beyond niche desktop roles. But, this will be changing. It won't be because people wake up tomorrow and realize how much better Linux is technically than Windows. Nope. That's not happening.
Instead, it will happen because Microsoft is abandoning the traditional PC-centric operating system for a cloud-based one. Why? Because that's where the money is.
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