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by UltraZelda64 on Wed 29th Aug 2012 03:41 UTC
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Yeah, this is getting old. Another year, yet another shitty new Windows release, same old "year of Linux on the desktop" shit. The reality is, Linux is in an even worse position to "take over" Windows than it was in the Vista days. Why? GNOME 3. It's every bit of a turd as Metro (sorry, Microsoft--it's still Metro to me), and most of the major Linux distros are switching to it (the ones that haven't already). Those ones that use Cinnamon... well, it's a good idea in theory, but I can't be the only one who tried it and was seriously disappointed. It's just woefully incomplete. Hopefully this changes soon, but last time I checked it just wasn't worth using.

2006 was the year of Linux on *my* desktop, and it's going to remain that way.
2011 was the year of Linux in my pocket (Android cell phone), and that won't be changing any time soon either.

There will be no "year of Linux on the desktop." Use it on your own machines, hell, even recommend it to other people if you want and don't mind inevitably having to help solve computer problems and hear complaints because "it's not just like Windows"--the claim that there's going to be some kind of magic, mystical year that Linux is just going to explode in is extremely annoying. Really, that would be a bad thing--because it would undoubtedly mark "the year of malware on the Linux desktop." Maybe not nearly to the same extent as Microsoft's horribly-designed insecure family of operating systems, but it would inevitably start to become a larger problem.

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