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I used to use the _expression_ 'year of the Linux desktop', but came to the same conclusion as you. I think perhaps a better way to express it would be 'the year that the general public openly adopt Free Software principles and software' (or something along those lines).
Grant
On Dec 16, 2012 10:56 AM, "paul sutton" <zleap@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 16/12/12 08:12, Roland Tarver wrote:
> > On 15/12/12 21:43, Philip Hudson wrote:
> >> http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/Top-5-Linux-Predictions-for-2013-76823.html
> >>
> >>
> >
> > 2013 : Still not the year of the linux desktop then. lol. Points 1-4
> > are all great though lol.
> >
> > roly :-)
> >
> Define Linux desktop, in fact define the desktop
>
> We think of the desktop as a PC as in the usual x86 computer desktop e.g
> gnome, kde et al
> however, Tablets are becoming more popular, Android is based on
> Linux and is popular without people realising it runs on Linux.
>
> Growth is set to continue so perhaps it will happen but not in the way
> we expect it to.
>
> Paul
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