[fulafel]

"Year of the linux desktop" has transformed from a mock into just a self-referential meme joke as nontechnical end-users moved away from desktop computers and the Windows competition started to slide into irrelevance.

The corpo world Windows market is still there, and "enthusiast" windows gaming is there, but personal computing for was mostly taken over by mobile / iPad / chromebook competition. And most of gaming of course is on mobile and consoles. The remaining corpo world use supplies mass market PC hardware to run desktop Linux on and we should keep an eye on its viability.

(Linux is of course a completely mainstream platform in the dev / maker / engineering world, windows only slightly ahead eg in stack overflow dev survey, has been working well and steadily improving for less technical users for 2-3 decades)