Year of the Linux Desktop?

3 points by kingwill101 7 years ago | 4 comments

With Google now making chromebooks officially linux ready and Microsoft now shipping the linux kernel with their wsl2 subsystem, can we now officially say it is the year of the linux Desktop?

geophile 7 years ago |

Sort of related: popOS is the most beautiful Linux desktop I’ve used. And the Gnome extensions make for very easy customization.

simonblack 7 years ago |

The Year of the Linux Desktop was 2001. Prior to that, the Year of the UNIX Desktop was 1991.

kingwill101 7 years ago | |

What was so significant about those years?

simonblack 7 years ago | | |

Those were the years that I put UNIX on my everyday Desktop and then afterwards Linux on my everyday Desktop.

Looking back on the 40 years of my having a Desktop, Microsoft owned the operating system used on my Desktop for a mere six years, between 1985 and 1991. (MSDOS)

I have never run Windows as my everyday Desktop. I had been using the UNIX GUI Desktop for several years when MSFT introduced Windows 3.1 to the world. I looked at it, but couldn't believe just how horribly primitive it was, even for Microsoft.