Well, Linux on the desktop is always this year. So it's closer than fusion, which is always ten years from now, and maybe closer than fully autonomous Teslas, which is always a year or two from now. At least the Steam Deck won't make rolling stops.

The irony of this is there is probably more Unix on your wrist than Linux on the desktop.

As someone who's heavily bought into the Apple ecosystem, I'm surrounded by Unix all the time, technically. On my wrist, in my pocket, on my lap. And I'm surrounded by Linux, too, at least at work. But Linux on the desktop? How delightfully absurd!

Nah, I really want my next PC build to run Linux. But that'll have to wait a while ... just paid $4k for a vacation. My girlfriend wasn't sympathetic that $4k would pay for an awesome rig instead.

I tried Linux on a fairly hefty Ryzen rig recently and it was the usual shit show. HiDPI doesn’t even work properly with wayland yet. My next $4k rig is going to be an iMac.

Typing this on my iPad in a hotel. That’s the life.

I'm sympathetic, and I don't think I'd ever run Linux as my primary compute. But as a secondary machine that gives me a chance to tinker where failure doesn't really matter, it seems viable.

I just rent mine from Linode. Less capital risk then.

Linux on the desktop is already here in the form of WSLg, and will be even more popular once Android support rolls out (though that's probably more useful on tablets anyway).

Already here. I am writing this on KDE Plasma.

The amount of other people reading this on a linux desktop is 100% irrelevant to me.