Originally posted by avis
View Post
Fact is, the traditional desktop is a dying form factor with how many different quality ways we have to access our content and control our widgets. My Black Friday special of an AndroidTV from 2020 or 2021 is good enough to run up to PS1 games on emulators. My Phone is even more powerful, can output to display devices over USB-C, and can have input devices connected to it. If you don't care about graphics that much, you're good to go with a decent phone.
My point is that there are a lot of different devices and ways to cover our needs without having to use a desktop like we traditionally would back in the day. It isn't the 90s or 00s where we didn't have the choice that we do now. Most all that choice is either powered by Linux or has a FOSS Userspace. People don't have to buy the All-In-One desktop for their specific tasks. They can buy a Steam Deck or Motorola RAZR instead and quit using their Windows desktop. One person replacing One Windows Desktop with Two Linux Widgets.
The Year of the Linux Desktop is a dead metric.
Comment