Honestly whatever Linux Distro takes over will almost certainly be an Android or ChormeOS style bastardization where you can certainly see the lineage but it’s so locked down and so far removed from the userland and tooling we expect that the whole point of “year of the Linux desktop” is lost
Yes and no. MacOS is basically the year of the Unix desktop for a while now and it’s still powerful and user friendly. Just fire up a terminal and it’s Unix. The benefit they have is hardware control so stuff just works and no driver hardware issues etc…
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There is something of a blurry line between the two these days.
I get the “Android software isn’t desktop software” argument, but then, I can also fire up up emacs in Termux on my Android phone, so that’s kind of blurry too.
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That’s not a desktop.
Some would say desktops are not really consumer hardware anymore. Unfortunately. Sent from my useless black rectangle.
Androis uses linux, but that does not make it a Desktop Linux. It’s not invalid, just out of scope to this metric. It’s pretty simple.
I’m not arguing this part at all, I agree with you.
Honestly whatever Linux Distro takes over will almost certainly be an Android or ChormeOS style bastardization where you can certainly see the lineage but it’s so locked down and so far removed from the userland and tooling we expect that the whole point of “year of the Linux desktop” is lost
Yes and no. MacOS is basically the year of the Unix desktop for a while now and it’s still powerful and user friendly. Just fire up a terminal and it’s Unix. The benefit they have is hardware control so stuff just works and no driver hardware issues etc…
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Have you used Linux lately? It really doesn’t take any more time than anything else.
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I have on servers as I run my own lemmy server. I do like Linux desktop but macOS just works for my work and home laptop.
https://www.amazon.com/android-laptop-computer/s?k=android+laptop+computer
There is something of a blurry line between the two these days.
I get the “Android software isn’t desktop software” argument, but then, I can also fire up up emacs in Termux on my Android phone, so that’s kind of blurry too.
I remember Dell had an option back in 2013 on the XPS laptops…
I bought one in 2022.
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