>Microsoft is directly competing more and more with their OEMs now that they have the Surface Laptop
>this could alienate their OEMs
>at the same time, Microsoft is pushing Windows 10 S, which be forces you to use the Windows Store because they're obviously trying to kill off win32 apps and switch everything to UWP
>this essentially means that legacy software support is slowly being phased out in Windows
So now that OEMs have a reason to push something besides Windows because they don't want to compete with Microsoft, and people are moving away from legacy software as it is, is this finally the year of the Linux desktop?
>>60340341
>is this finally the year of the Linux desktop?
I doubt it.
>>60340341
Finally, it's the year of the BSD desktop.
They already made Chromebooks, why wouldn't they make 10books
>>60340341
Can i submit this to fanfiction.net?
It really doesn't matter, linux does what it does and it does it great. But future is smartphones and windows will slowly die. Ubuntu phone is dead, Mir is dead, Unity is dead, plasma mobile (also replicant) supports only 2 phones, will gnu/linux can be even an option to the mobile platform, or will it slowly die?
>>60340341
>is this finally the year of the Linux desktop?
Linux Witness members are so tsundere towards normal users, always bringing this topic.
>>60341513
>future are smartphones
???
>>60340341
No year will ever be the year of the Linux desktop.
>>60341898
The most used OS is Android, not windows
>>60340428
they have. and they are shit. you can't install anything unless it's from the windows store so you're stuck with microsoft edge and web/tablet apps