Originally posted by Svartalf
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But I also remember the Utah-GLX drivers 10 years ago, and the hope that WINE would bring complete transparency in terms of running Windows apps "any day now". The battles are exactly the same now as they were back then. People thought that as soon as they could run Internet Explorer through WINE, Linux would conquer the desktop overnight.
I still don't think that it is the complexity or user-unfriendliness that is keeping Linux a minority on the desktop. It can be very annoying at certain times, but it was technologically ready 10 years ago already. It's not a D3D state tracker it's been missing all these years, it's mindshare, top apps, shelf space, business deployments, open standards, portable software. Exactly the same things as 10 years ago.
And to see a new generation of users hailing some proprietary monopolist API as the solution to the problem is rather bewildering. Luckily, the Linux developers are not that silly
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