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There are still people who think GNU/Linux is for "techies" and if you don't know C++ and a half a dozen other languages, your computer will explode.

GNU/Linux is gaining popularity, but it will take awhile for it to be on most computers.

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With the ease of learning due to the unlimited resources we have these days more and more people are labeling themselves "techies" and running Linux. I think Linux will gain some ground as more people run it with the notion that it will make them a better programmer, when the reality is that they will still work a day job at Futureshop for the next 10 years (that is if large tech stores exist in 10 years).

And, if I may add, ever since Ubuntu (not that I like it, personally, but whatever) I've seen more people using Linux than ever before. Give it another ten years and they might have something really competitive on the end-user side, especially if Microsoft and Apple keep creeping more and more digital restriction management BS into their OS's.

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