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ninjagoo
Well, I'll be! An article like this? On ZDNet, of all places?! When did this about face happen??

Maybe we are closer to the Year of Linux on the Desktop than ever before!

unmole
Steven Vaughan-Nichols, a senior contributing editor at ZDNet, has been advocating desktop Linux for ages.
jlpcsl
Yeah. Too bad he mostly wrote about the boring enterprisey Linux stuff, not exciting desktop Linux, for example he completely ignored all kool stuff from KDE.
jdworrells
In my opinion, there are two relatively recent events that help move more people towards using Linux as their daily driver. The first, as mentioned in this article, is the shift to online productivity suites - Microsoft 365/Google Workspace/iCloud. For the most part, you can access those platforms from any end device and be productive. The other is Steam and Proton. Proton has allowed me to play just about any game I want from Linux, with little to no performance hit.

We're getting closer to the Year of Linux on the Desktop, starting to increase the slope of that asymptotic curve!