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> 19XX will be the year of Linux on the desktop

> 20XX will be the year of Linux on the desktop

They've been saying it so long it's part of our psyche. It doesn't matter the other places Linux is running, it hasn't conquered that one place they've been trying to conquer since the start. You never get over the one who got away.



> 19XX will be the year of Linux on the desktop

When they said it back in the 1920s it was sort of confusing, tbh.


Time Travelers, man.


> it hasn't conquered that one place they've been trying to conquer since the start

Who is "they"?

There's are a heck of a lot of people happily building [software for] Linux systems that give precisely zero care to the success of Linux desktop.


> it hasn't conquered that one place they've been trying to conquer since the start.

Who is "they" here?




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