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by Tinfoilhat666 2469 days ago
Linux is the best thing that has happened for China and Russia. It helps them escape the Microsoft/Apple/Google control. Even North Korea has its own linux distro to avoid US software. Desktop linux will be a reality.
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> Desktop linux will be a reality.

This is the 'Fusion power is just around the corner' of the computing world. There's only one way Desktop Linux succeeds, and that's that all the other Desktop OSs are abandoned or drive themselves into the dirt the way Win10 seems intent on doing.

Windows has WSL (2 by now). ChromeOS supports desktop linux apps. Samsung has linux on DeX.

I wouldn't be surprised if in the not too far future also macOS or iOS ship with some version of homebrew or macports included out of the box.

What's your point? Running Linux optionally in a VM isn't what people mean when they talk about Desktop Linux. Neither is homebrew (which is Linux how, exactly?). ChromeOS is on Chromebooks, which are explicitly not desktops because their whole design is as a web kiosk.
My point is running desktop linux apps. My point is that it is NOT "optionally" but officially and encouraged.

Also your notion of chromebooks is about a decade out of date.

Oh I see, we've shifted the goalposts from Linux on the Desktop to Linux Apps on a proprietary OS on the Desktop.