Do you think 2010 will be the year of the linux desktop?

[Red Squirrel]

I think, this is it. A new decade, a new era... the year of the Linux desktop.

 

[Lifted]

absonotly

 

[Kalmah]

Give it Direct X support and I'm game.

 

[fleabag]

Give it Direct X support and I'm game.

Even easier, if game makers just made their games Open GL then they could easily port their games to Mac OS and Linux OS..

 

[T9D]

....

 

[theevilsharpie]

No.

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

I think, this is it. A new decade, a new era... the year of the Linux desktop.

This may be the year that I go all-Linux in my household. I'm damn near there already. Basically the only reason I run XP is so that I can play a variety of Source engine-based games (mostly just CS:S), and I think people have had some success getting a few of them to run under wine.

My machines are 5 Linux and 1 XP, and 1 work lappy that's XP by policy.

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

Even easier, if game makers just made their games Open GL then they could easily port their games to Mac OS and Linux OS..

If you start an OpenGL game on a Linux desktop on a water-cooled system in the wintertime... will it warm up?

 

[Xonoahbin]

Windows 7 has put another dagger in the heart of Linux. It brought me back to the Windows side, particularly since Ubuntu keeps screwing up my sound drivers.

 

[spidey07]

Now fucking way. Not going to happen. People want their computer to just work when they turn it on, not to fiddle with it.

A computer is not a toy, it is a machine. As such it should require little tinkering to make it work.

 

[dwell]

Chrome OS = Linux, so technically, yes.

If Google gets that OS in even 1/4 of the 2010 netbooks that's a huge step for Linux.

 

[Lifted]

Chrome OS = Linux, so technically, yes.

If Google gets that OS in even 1/4 of the 2010 netbooks that's a huge step for Linux.

Pipe dream. So many of the original netbooks with linux installed were returned that we're not going to see that happen again.

 

[RESmonkey]

Now fucking way. Not going to happen. People want their computer to just work when they turn it on, not to fiddle with it.

A computer is not a toy, it is a machine. As such it should require little tinkering to make it work.

this. people are stupid. they need simple like mac.

 

[HannibalX]

No one wants Google OS anyway.

 

[RESmonkey]

No one wants Google OS anyway.

this too. windows will continue to dominate.

 

[dwell]

Pipe dream. So many of the original netbooks with linux installed were returned that we're not going to see that happen again.

That's because they crammed a shitty desktop Linux OS on a netbook. Chrome OS is specialized, like Android. Notice how Android is on like 1/2 of the smartphones going out these days? Now picture the same for netbooks. Hmmm.

 

[0roo0roo]

no chance, they've been claiming every coming years will be linuxes time for quite a while now.

 

[0roo0roo]

That's because they crammed a shitty desktop Linux OS on a netbook. Chrome OS is specialized, like Android. Notice how Android is on like 1/2 of the smartphones going out these days? Now picture the same for netbooks. Hmmm.

no chance, the netbooks went straight to xp/windows. they aren't going back for droid very few smart phone users actually choose droid, its more a matter of a cheaper plan or avoiding at&t.

 

[F1N3ST]

2011/0 is the year of the linux desktop.

 

[Red Squirrel]

2011/0 is the year of the linux desktop.

Segmentation fault: Division by zero

Ah crap.

 

[F1N3ST]

Segmentation fault: Division by zero

Ah crap.

I was saying, it's not going to happen

 

[mmntech]

Now if only someone would put a unix based operating system on top quality hardware, make it super easy to use, have commercial games and software for it. Then they'd easily take 10% of the market share.... cough.

Seriously though, the closest you're going to get to a Linux desktop hitting mainstream is OS X. It's built on the same basic foundation but it's considerably streamlined. Linux is just too clunky for the average user. I tried using it as my primary OS for a while back on my old machine but ended up drifting back to Windows. Linux's biggest strength is also its biggest weakness. With so many distros out there, it's just a mess. There's really no unified effort to streamline it into something easy to use.

 

[iGas]

Not.

Still lack software supports. Last week I had to boot into Vista so that I can install update for my Garmin Nuvi 255W GPS.

<--- Mint 7 Linux default desktop.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

Hell no. I use Linux a fair bit but it's simply not ready for normal users. Even distros like Ubuntu force users into obscure command line tools far too often.

 

[dwell]

Seriously though, the closest you're going to get to a Linux desktop hitting mainstream is OS X. It's built on the same basic foundation but it's considerably streamlined. Linux is just too clunky for the average user. I tried using it as my primary OS for a while back on my old machine but ended up drifting back to Windows. Linux's biggest strength is also its biggest weakness. With so many distros out there, it's just a mess. There's really no unified effort to streamline it into something easy to use.

That's because most (all) Linux desktops try to clone Windows. Linux is going to take off on the desktop when someone gives it the "OS X" treatment. Could be Chrome OS (in a special-purpose sort of way). Linux, the kernel, is frickin' everywhere already.