) But it’s still a desktop….or in other words….your “WORKSTATION”. The desktop whether it be a true desktop or a laptop ( I know…it’s “mobile” too….but most folks who replaced their Desktop used their laptop as a space saving desktop with the ability to take it to the couch if need be. You’re contract ends and you get a new phone. Cell phones and tablets get dropped and broken all the time. First of all the mobile space is disposable. Which is why we keep losing new users to the Mac when they have finally had enough of Windows and are looking for an alternative.Īnd please….the self serving triumphalism of the article writer that we don’t need a “year of the Desktop Linux” because Linux rules the server space where desktops are not as important and mobile through Android is silly and juvenile. EXPERIENCED users such as myself don’t want this. New people looking to Linux don’t want this. But the geeks still rule the GTK+ and GNOME world too much and are too immature to realize they are hurting Linux adoption with their attitudes on radical design changes (hint….you’re not supposed to be Windows 8)….and of course this had led to GNOME fragmentation with MATE and Cinnamon to compete with GNOME 3. Yes….I also use many GTK+ and GNOME flavored apps. I settled on KDE as my GUI 10 years ago as it is STILL the only Linux GUI that offers a holistic, complete, desktop software stack (ala Windows and Mac) along with a more mature and complete toolkit in the form of QT. I don’t have time anymore nor the need to tweek and phreak my system 18 hours a day. Linux will never be a desktop alternative because it is still ruled by geeks.
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