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Re:After 30 Years, Linux Finally Hits 3% Market Share by eddieroger on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @08:53AM (#36680286)
> 19XX will be the year of Linux on the desktop

> 20XX will be the year of Linux on the desktop

They've been saying it so long it's part of our psyche. It doesn't matter the other places Linux is running, it hasn't conquered that one place they've been trying to conquer since the start. You never get over the one who got away.

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Re:After 30 Years, Linux Finally Hits 3% Market Share by earthboundkid on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @09:06AM (#36680432)
> 19XX will be the year of Linux on the desktop

When they said it back in the 1920s it was sort of confusing, tbh.

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Re:After 30 Years, Linux Finally Hits 3% Market Share by Ruq on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @09:10AM (#36680467)
Time Travelers, man.
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Re:After 30 Years, Linux Finally Hits 3% Market Share by gregmac on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @09:31AM (#36680698)
> it hasn't conquered that one place they've been trying to conquer since the start

Who is "they"?

There's are a heck of a lot of people happily building [software for] Linux systems that give precisely zero care to the success of Linux desktop.

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Re:After 30 Years, Linux Finally Hits 3% Market Share by Zambyte on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @10:46AM (#36681746)
> it hasn't conquered that one place they've been trying to conquer since the start.

Who is "they" here?

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