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by yjftsjthsd-h 710 days ago
In both cases, it depends how you set the goalposts. If you define the Year of the Linux Desktop as the year when a not-super-technical person could install a Linux distro and daily drive it via GUI, I think Ubuntu cleared the mark >15 years ago. If you define it as Linux having more desktop users than NT, it may never happen. If you say the mark for RISC-V is being used more than x86 then it's at best a long ways out. If you set the mark as being perfectly good for uses that replace microcontrollers (say, things well-served by ARM's smaller chips) then it's been there for a while.