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I also think "year of the desktop" is a unicorn (even if it were to come, you wouldn't pin it on one year - it's a process) and I personally believe that if Windows is going to die, it will be replaced by some web-only shit instead of another local desktop-based OS.
However, Linux desktop adoption did increase quite steeply in the past few years and to a point I confidently moved also my wife's and mother's computers to Linux because it actually causes me less headache than Windows did.
So, no need to be condescending and sarcastic about it.
ChromeOS has a massive market (10%-20% depending on who you ask) and that's basically linux with a chrome frontend.
So it really depends on what you mean by 'year of the desktop' as you can spin the definition either way.. either it'll never happen or it happened years ago.
Would you agree that what makes Linux laughable as a replacement for consumers is how splitered or fractured it is?
Although up to a certain point I believe the choice of GUI desktops to be a good thing, but I believe the only choices should be Plasma and Mate, with all the customization available for each one, the format for software insallation is what kills it. I never understood why when Linus started it, he never developed a built-in way of handling software installs along with tools for making changes to programs that got install.
Making people learn about which distribution they are using means it's better for them to forever stay on Windows where they can use any program they want without learning anything beyond looking for a Windows file to install.
As Theo de Raadt says, people want to use the software, not study it.
Again, while you might have a point, your tone just sucks and makes me not want to interact with you.
Consumers can just pick one off-the-hook polished distro like Mint and are never even confronted with all the possible choices.