• tempest@lemmy.caEnglish
    34·
    2 days ago

    Year of the desktop has been a meme so long the people spouting it have failed to realize that the desktop itself is in decline.

    There are many many people for which a mobile phone or tablet is their only computer. If you want to count Android as a Linux distro then year of the Linux desktop has come and gone ten years ago.

    • grue@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      9·
      1 day ago

      There are many many people for which a mobile phone or tablet is their only computer.

      That’s it’s own kind of disaster, TBH. As proprietary as Windows is, at least it’s mostly not DRM’d and has the right sort of interface for creating things instead of just consuming content.

    • Synapse@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 day ago

      I’ve seen a documentary recently about people leaving in very remote places, I think it was in the mountains in Bhutan (not sure). This family of farmers didn’t have electricity in their home, but they had smartphones.

      It’s probably hard to imagine for someone born in a wealthy country (like myself), but there are probably way more people around the world that have never use a computer but have a smartphone today.

  • grue@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
    311·
    2 days ago

    This is pretty much off-topic, but I’m too pleased about my advocacy interests converging to care.

    • floo@retrolemmy.comEnglish
      21·
      2 days ago

      I disagree. This may be one of the most quintessentially Lemmy posts that I’ve ever seen, lol

      • grue@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
        1·
        1 day ago

        I’m just pointing out that I’m kinda abusing my mod privilege because something this tangential would ordinarily get removed. I couldn’t resist this one-time exception, but I intend not to make a habit of it.

  • LostXOR@fedia.io
    19·
    2 days ago

    I don’t think there will be a single year that stands out in terms of Linux adoption, but it’s definitely been accelerating over the past few years. I think in the next decade we’ll see Linux gain enough of a market share to be considered a mainstream OS.