Furthermore, the continued economic recession/depression will drive more and more businesses to adopt Linux, and this will increase spread to user's homes. As consumer's budgets become smaller, they will adopt Linux in increasing numbers as they become aware of it through the grape vine and wish to keep their old computer hardware running without relying on unsupported and out-of-date software.
Those with money will choose Apple over Microsoft.
>>2 not seeing a pattern not getting a joke autismus retardatus
welcome to /prog/
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Anonymous2012-06-20 6:55
>>2
2013 will be the year. Just you wait. Windows 8 is going live in July, and it will be ill-received. By Q2 2013, several months after Steam launched on Linux, more and more gamers and hardcore users will be making the switch to SteamBox, Linux Mint or Ubuntu. Ubuntu use is already at 5% of home PC desktop/laptop use, which was more than Mac OS 9 back in the 90s.
>>2
Except, this time, Microsoft is throwing in the towel. They don't care about the desktop anymore.
I expect Windows will own the majority share until 2015, but 2013 could be big for Linux adoption. It might be able to breach 10% of desktop/laptop use. And that would be a victory.
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Anonymous2012-06-20 7:30
Linux has been the year of the desktop since 2006.
Free software developers can't into shader optimisation. NVIDIA will never support Wayland because professional CAD software will stick with X11. Wayland is shit.
>>22
Linux is great for complete computer novices, and for advanced users.
What it's not great for is the borderline script kiddies in between who have learned a few Windows idioms and think that constitutes expertry, and who are confident enough in their abilities to break systems but not competent enough to fix them afterwards. It's these people most of the opposition to Linux is coming from, and /g/ is full of them.
>>24
Linux is great if all you do is browse the web (although even there it's not totally operational because of the lack of Silverlight and buggy Flash support).
If you need any professional software, or you want to play games, or if you just want things to work on the desktop with nearly ubiquitous support from hardware manufacturers, then Linux is worthless. Let's face facts here, kid.
Know I'm getting trolled but a lot of EE/CompE software runs on Linux. Hell, the place I work now only runs Linux, not a windows pc in sight. I can't even imagine my work flow on a windows machine.
>>30
you don't like to configure shit? use Kubuntu
you want a secure, versatile operating system? use Debian
you want a backdoored, slow, badly-designed operating system? use Windows
If Linux in any of its flavors really is great, then why does it get such minimal use that (every) "next/this year" will be the year of its desktop and it isn't already happened? why the holdup? the lackluster?
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Anonymous2012-06-21 0:05
Why does anyone even care what kind of desktop they use as long as it works to the degree that the applications that matter work?