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I’ve been using Linux for better than 22 years. It was the only operating system in my home for more than 12 of those years and I pretty much live at the command line. I’ve voted with my wallet and backed open source initiatives over that time too, but there comes a point where you just want stuff to work and you want to be able to interact with the rest of the world with the same feature set they enjoy. This is where Linux falls short. It’s a last mile problem with window managers and their associated apps. It’s further divided between software ecosystems within Linux. Another commenter pointed out how web-based apps are increasingly powerful, and I think that’s helping but there’s still a gap.

I have an interest in computers and I know a whole lot about them, but I want my daily experience to be smooth and to just work and I want to be able to relate to the rest of the world in terms of software. So, I use Linux for work and Windows or OSX everything else.

My point is that your comment seems to say that if people had an interest in computers they would (of course) be using Linux, and that’s absolutely not true.

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The article is about when the year of Linux on the desktop will happen. If you want your desktop to run Linux it will. If you want Windows and OSX do you can use those operating systems then you will move to those systems. And my point is that you make of it what you will. There will be no mass convergence of society to a Linux desktop. If Windows and OSX are important to you socially then that’s your value, not everyone’s prerogative.