Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 1st Sep 2006 14:50 UTC, submitted by Moulinneuf
It's that time of the year again. "If 'a year of GNU/Linux on the desktop' is defined as a year when GNU/Linux has finally started its steady encroachment to the desktop then 2006 is the year. A lot of users have started using GNU/Linux on their desktops long before, but it is 2006 which marked the two probably biggest GNU/Linux desktop releases to date, Ubuntu Dapper and Novell SuSE 10. It is 2006 which marks the biggest opportunity for GNU/Linux to steal the desktop market share from Windows due to the bad reputation behind the pending Windows Vista release. And the eyes and focus of both the GNU/Linux community and major GNU/Linux corporations such as Novell are fixed on that opportunity. Novell marketing is true: 'Your Linux is ready'."
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2005-08-28
While I think Linux IS ready for the desktop, you can't really call it the year of the Linux desktop until all those people actually start switching.
And if you want to define it in terms of Windows Vista, then I'd say the last quarter of 2006 and then first three quarters of 2007 will be your year. But the problem is we're all assuming as of 2007, once Vista is released, everyone will HAVE to switch.
If that were true, a lot of resentful people just MIGHT move to Linux or Macintosh. I'd say those particular dates because that's right around the time Vista will come out and a lot of people will be most unsure whether they want it. By the end of 2007, all new computers will come running Vista anyway, and the amount of people who might consider upgrading to a different OS entirely rather than get new hardware will shrink dramatically.
But then again, unless there's massive Linux adoption I wouldn't call 2007 the year of the Linux desktop. And continuing the steady (small) adoption rate doesn't count.