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Yeah. There's two camps of the "year of the Linux desktop" topic. "I want Linux to be the majority of usage share" and "I want Linux to be good enough for me to use." The 2nd goal has been accomplished for many potential users since the mid-2000s, and only increasing especially since the web has nearly killed off native application development. The first goal is one I'm not interested in, myself.



I don't think the web killed native app development as much as the OS vendors themselves did by making everything miserable trying to build moats.




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