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user-inactivated  ·  4029 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Is the Linux desktop becoming extinct?

No, linux desktops are the right environment for linux developers, and so as long as linux rules the server and embedded market it's here to stay. Beyond that, eh. Efforts to woo people away from OsX and Windows have given us a lot of cruft. I'd rather we stopped trying than be both a crap Unix and a crap competitor to OsX. I'd rather we'd dump the illusion that we have to compete with anyone, because we don't. Redhat and Canonical do, but fuck Canonical and Redhat's business is all about enterprisey server installs.