cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/36827447
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Year of the desktop has been a meme so long the people spouting it have failed to realize that the desktop itself is in decline.
There are many many people for which a mobile phone or tablet is their only computer. If you want to count Android as a Linux distro then year of the Linux desktop has come and gone ten years ago.
That’s it’s own kind of disaster, TBH. As proprietary as Windows is, at least it’s mostly not DRM’d and has the right sort of interface for creating things instead of just consuming content.