Linux Turns 25 Years Old

[arokh]

It's never be and only stupid Windows users writes posts like this. Linux desktop is better for an years, all Windows visual features are stolen from KDE for an years. Not only this, NTFS is the weakest and incompetent FS on earth. I never use Windows even for money, C/C++ Linux developer here.

You obviously haven't been using Linux very long. Simply google "The year of the Linux desktop" and you'll quickly find that it was a "thing". I remember it was around 2003-2004 when RedHat released version 9 with it's bluecurve theme for qt/gtk. The 2.6 kernel came and Project Utopia promised to actuallly do something when you connected hardware to your machine. Linux elitists argued that it would soon be the year of the Linux desktop, as in it would actually take over as the primary OS for everyone.

Needless to say, it never came and it never will. The closest we'll get is Android. As for the PC desktop, there simply isn't anyone who cares about it. People use their spare time to code on whatever applications you are using. You are not guaranteed updates or new features. Probably they don't care to work together with people from other projects either, to make applications benefit eachother. Look at the number of Linux distributions, the number of desktop environments. Standards are still missing, everyone is going in different directions.

No doubt, lots of people are using Linux as their primary desktop and it's probably doing what they need better than other platforms. But it isn't the year of the Linux desktop

[starshipeleven]

Still cannot break the 2% barrier. Not if anyone cares, anyway. :-)

OSX (now MacOS) is at like 4% and they have support for most stuff they might need. Linux desktop doesn't need to go beyond 5% to get full support of anything imho.

On a sidenote, let's keep dumbfuck users on Windows please, I don't want malware/adware/shovelware for linux.

[Ehvis]

Hard to put a single event to it. I tried Linux installs from way back in '93 or '94, when distros were a big tgz file and an install disk. Probably the most interesting is that my M$ disappointment reached critical levels after the release of WinXP and finally realised that Linux was better on the desktop as well. Never looked back after that.

So really, Linux has been ready for the desktop for 15 years. It's people who are not ready for change.

[bregma]

Well, happy birthday Linux.

We really had no idea it would get so widespread and last so long. It's still just a hobby system, but it now runs most computers worldwide (not counting business word processors or accounting machines and game consoles). That's amazing and still exciting.

[cynic]

This was supposed to be the year of Linux desktop, oh well.
2025 isn't that bad either, just 9 years more.

the thing that we used to call "the desktop" those years is now dead.

Linux rules the server side and has a great share on the mobile, and that's all that matters nowadays. (well, almost!)

[arokh]

What really matters is Pokemon Go, and it does run on Linux.

[starshipeleven]

As for the PC desktop, there simply isn't anyone who cares about it. People use their spare time to code on whatever applications you are using. You are not guaranteed updates or new features. Probably they don't care to work together with people from other projects either, to make applications benefit eachother. Look at the number of Linux distributions, the number of desktop environments. Standards are still missing, everyone is going in different directions.

Are you perhaps on drugs or something?
-major opensource programs do have development teams.
-distros ship the same software, and on average they do cooperate on common projects.
-there are only 2 toolkits in use: GTK and similar and Qt, both work fine also together.
-standards exist and most follow it

[dungeon]

It is also great to see how good is the Nvidia linux driver.

To be stright It is not nvidia linux driver, but nVidia's or nvidia driver for Linux

What is out of kernel tree is not "linux driver", but "driver for linux"

[dungeon]

There is no what to see there, other then marketing For out of tree drivers it is correct to say driver4linux, but not linux driver.

[dungeon]

Simple thing, whatever is shipped by linux package itself is kernel plus drivers, so those are linux drivers... and whatever is outside party is driver for that, so driver for linux.