Replied to: Will there ever be a year of the Linux desktop?

November 5 2011, 4:54pm

If is coming, it's not coming soon, Linux has stayed at around 1% market share for a while now. Zdnet had an article on this recently actually:http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/the-year-of-the-linux-desktop-isnt-coming/16022Why isn't more people switching to linux? Well the everyday consumer is someone who picks up a windows or mac machine and it's already got an OS on it. They have no real compelling reason to switch.But is there anything wrong with that? The people who are using linux are developers, designers open source advocates, etc. The people doing it because they believe in it (and/or the geek cred). Those are the kind of people that build software and contribute to the community (and can often be much more passionate (cough, and sometimes louder). That's why Linux rarely falls short of having an equivalent to whatever you can find on a mac or linux machine.Unlike you, I was able to find apps on Linux for all my needs I was used to in Windows. I used Ubuntu as my sole OS for over 5 years. It's a fun niche to be a part of (something that you could argue might even wear off if it went mainstream, like how being a Apple-fanboy isn't AS cool anymore).