LXer: Soon the most popular 'real' desktop will be the Linux desktop

LXer · 08-05-2023, 07:13 AM

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Microsoft is moving Windows to the cloud and Apple will be happy to have you run macOS on the cloud. Opinion If you count Android and Chrome OS as Linux, which I do, the Linux desktop accounts for 44.98 percent of the end user market. But if your idea of the "Linux desktop" has a front end of Cinnamon, GNOME or KDE, then it's more like 3.06 percent. Better than it has been at times, but it's no "Year of the Linux desktop." Maybe, though, it will be someday.…

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fatmac · 08-05-2023, 07:20 AM

Hah, desktop Linux by default....

GazL · 08-05-2023, 07:58 AM

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Now you may say, "There's no way I'm going to 'subscribe' to a cloud version of Windows." Really? Tell me, are you running Office 2019/2021 or Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365) at a cost of at least $70 a year?

No... No, I'm not.

Windows OS died with 2000/XP. It's just taking folks time to smell the corpse.