Desktop Linux Is Dead

digitaldc writes with this quote from PCWorld: "It kills me to say this: The dream of Linux as a major desktop OS is now pretty much dead. Despite phenomenal security and stability — and amazing strides in usability, performance, and compatibility — Linux simply isn't catching on with desktop users. And if there ever was a chance for desktop Linux to succeed, that ship has long since sunk. ... Ultimately, Linux is doomed on the desktop because of a critical lack of content. And that lack of content owes its existence to two key factors: the fragmentation of the Linux platform, and the fierce ideology of the open-source community at large."

Comments

On the contrary

[COMON$]

Linux desktop is very much alive...on thinclients :)

However, what is up with the obvious story troll? Are the /. numbers low today?

Re:Not dead on my desktop

[bsDaemon]

Maybe you had better hardware than I was working with. The last "PC" laptop I had would only get about an hour and a half running Windows, and was much worse with either Linux (tried slackware, fedora, centos, and ubuntu) or FreeBSD (also including PC-BSD). When I get a new job that payed more, I rewarded myself with a Macbook Pro and quite frankly, have no reason to ever really want to go back. I can always just go into VMWare if I have to.

Re:wrong OS? NO! Wrong QUESTION!

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Tablets are a fad and won't even be around in 5 years. The suckers that believe Steve's BS already have one the rest of us have moved on already. And the ones that did buy it even admit now that it's a toy and they don't really use it much. After they showed up at the coffee shop and could not figure how to hold it and nobody told them how cool they were for having an iPad they are ready to move on too.

You're right.

[brouski]

You'll play it on a gaming console.