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> linux desktop is doomed to fail

What does this even mean? I’ve been using Arch Linux with KDE as my only desktop OS for years and it’s a wonderful time. If you think Windows is better and prefer to use that, great. I personally prefer Linux and a lot of other people do as well.

linux desktop is never going to take off and died off when all the money moved to the cloud - it's not the 2000s, you can download windows and run it for free because that's not where the money is anymore. For the average user that's not technically oriented, that's going to be their goto solution.

> linux desktop is never going to take off

Who cares? Why is popularity so important to you?

The Linux Desktop has failed already thanks to the endless fragmentation and religious attacks on drivers.

Even ChromeOS and Android only package the Linux kernel, while building their own userspace on top.

With the Web turning into ChromeOS, and the return of timesharing via the cloud, there is even less reasons to care about the GNU/Linux desktop.

What's your idea that would save Linux desktop?

less fragmentation, i think Unity 8 could have been the answer, sadly it died way to early..