2018 will be the year of the Linux desktop, r-right?

2018 will be the year of the Linux desktop, r-right?

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No. Linux is more hassle than the average computer user wants to deal with (yes, even "easy ones" like Mint are still harder to use than Windows) and thus they will not be adopted. People want easy before they want good. That is why McDonald's stays in business.

Yes, but only because Windows and Mac users stop buying desktops.

I remember a time when everyone thought that the release of the big mac sauce spelled the end of mcdonalds and then mcdonalds released it themselves with ingredients list an how to make it and it didn't change anything. People want easy they dont care if they can compile it themselves.

Chromebooks and Android will bring us the year of the linux desktop .

Not even Discord could make that happen user...

>2.36%
holy moly
I remember when it was less than 1

What would be gained if a linux based desktop OS had considerable market share?

>what would be gained
More malware written for Linux variants for one thing...

that's almost certain to be an undercount, since Linux users are more likely to care about privacy and do things like disabling telemetry or spoofing their browser's user agent.

kill yourself pony fucker

Qubes OS with easy to use GUI to do GPU passthrough (SLI supported) on a Windows 10 1709 appvm.

If you make that, you win, year of the Linux desktop finally. Look on the bright side, you are closer than you have ever been before, you've got nearly everything to do year of Linux desktop, but serious business users want the latest version of Office, seamlessly, and gamers want SLI support on GPU passthrough for their 60fps everything 4k.

Fixed

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Look how fucking close YotLD is! Look at it! It's sooo almost there. Just sooo close in your grasp, just fucking contribute... Get Windows 10 fucking working DX12 is needed for a lot of modern applications, it's soo close, I'm also happy you can remove the KDE and put awesomewm, SOO CLOSE, JUST DO IT! MAKE YOUR DREAMS COME TRUE!

I miss the time when posting anything pony related would derail an entire board

No business wants a non-modular VM for end-users, only a select amount of autist can settle for a non-modular VM. Nobody wants to have to tab over to a completely seperate desktop environment, ABSOLUTELY NOBODY NORMAL. AppVMs are the only way you can push yourselves forward. You do this shit, and it's YotLD.

>Being a delusional macfag

>he can't afford a Mac

I almost commented on it, but I know anyone that still likes that show has an actual problem with their brain, so what is the point?

Oh god please kys.

Because you're poor?

Fake news, 99% can't use windows without fucking everything up because of the massive amount of shit software they install. While you can't install shit software that will fuck your all systems on Ubuntu and co

Desktop is the last hope.
Everything else is linux now, everything.
You probably have more linux computers at your house than windows machines and they will only keep going.

Hmm let’s see
>iPhone - UNIX
>laptop - Windows
Huh really makes me think.
I’m not a faggot who owns all these stupid smart home smart watch bullshit.

What kind of device is getting you on the internet?

The LTE modem in my phone.

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

no but thx for MLP reminder

Well, here's the first linux machine.

Your proof?

not enough to be significant, GNU/Linux is still riddled with functionally illiterate idiots pretending to be tech-savants because they know how to type apt-get install firefox into a bash prompt

It's been years since I dropped mlp, is it just as bad as it was in 2015?

>caring about freedom is bad at any skill level
Fuck off, pajeet.

>getting defensive and sputtering nonsense
it's just reality, you don't have to be security-conscious or obsessed with the ethics of software development to appreciate the utility, compatibility and interoperability that GNU/Linux offers in 2018, and the droves of university students, developers and casuals on the platform could give a fuck about masking their digital footprint to the point that it would make a statistically significant impact

>muh freedoms argument
Listen buddy.
99.9% of users don’t care about source code.
99.9% of users will not have the programming skill to modify or examine the source code.
99.9% of users understand you get what you pay for. Linturd is free of charge, Windows is not. Why don’t people use Linux then? Because it’s fucking trash coded mostly by neckbeards in their basement, with a corporate investor here and there purely for the purpose of furthering their own proprietary ends (see Android)

Deal with it Lintard

>yes, even "easy ones" like Mint are still harder to use than Windows
No, not really. The difference is that most people are used to the way windows does things, so anything different from that is seen as "harder" even if it's actually easier and more intuitive to someone who doesn't assume he knows how it works because of how windows does it.

Yeah, it's been steadily growing.

Even that's wrong, normalfags just say that kind of shit to you so you'll shut the fuck up and stop evangelizing it at every opportunity because they don't care if it does some trivial task they already mastered years ago a few seconds faster or in a more logical way.

Linux in 2018 isn't hard to use at all, it's baby shit for anyone who cares to try it. It just brings nothing to the table to make a significant amount of people actually care about it and see past its lack of polish and compatibility.

>muh majority argument
Listen goy.
e3.π% of those statistics are pulled directly out of your cum-incrusted ass.
e3.π% of Windows users got it free of charge.
e3.π% of Windows users didn't even install it themselves, so is it reasonable to expect them to install anything themselves?
e3.π% of users don't believe you get what you pay for. In fact, more often than not they feel scammed out of their money, unless they live in some hellhole where corporations are viewed with utmost zeal and adoration.
Why don’t people use Linux then? Because they are dumb fucks who don't give an iota of a fuck about their privacy (willingly or simply out of ignorance) and even less about spending a minute of their highly precious time searching for an easy solution online and risking potentially learning something in the process instead of posting "oh wow so nice :D liked" on facebook.

Bout the same

Every year people say that and every year is the same thing.

>goes on about how everything I said is wrong
>then at the end of his post confirms everything I said
This is the average manchild

sudo apt-get install gentoo

It's very easy to install malicious Chrome extensions on Linux which kinda defeats the purpose.