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You’ve heard the “prophecy”: next year is going to be the year of the Linux desktop, right? Linux is no longer the niche hobby of bearded sysadmins and free software evangelists that it was a decade ago! Modern distributions like Ubuntu, Pop!_OS, and Linux Mint are sleek, accessible, and — dare I say it — mainstream-adjacent.

Linux is ready for professional work, including video editing, and it even manages to maintain a slight market share advantage over macOS among gamers, according to the Steam Hardware & Software Survey.

However, it’s not ready to dethrone Windows. At least, not yet!

  • the_crotch@sh.itjust.works
    6·
    5 months ago

    You’ve heard the “prophecy”: next year is going to be the year of the Linux desktop, right?

    Yes, every year since 1997

    • Björn@swg-empire.de
      4·
      5 months ago

      Usually the current year is the year of the Linux desktop. At the very least in the first half of said year.