The year of Linux on the desktop already happened.
It was March 2020 to sometime in 2022 when millions of people were given a Chromebook and told to work from home.
It was March 2020 to sometime in 2022 when millions of people were given a Chromebook and told to work from home.
ChromeOS may be Linux at the core, but it lacks the privacy that has driven so many to Linux already.
There are ways to make a Chromebook run Linux -- https://vkc.sh/linux-on-a-chromebook-but-interesting-er/ -- but I doubt a lot of this was of interest to the vast majority of people using a Chromebook.
Windows is for gamers. macOS is for creatives. Both appeal to developers in different ways.
Linux doesn't really have a compelling user story. If you care about software freedom, maybe you use Linux, but there are so many different distros out there that it's hard to know what most people would even use Linux for at all. I finally stopped trying to use it as a desktop in 2021 and haven't looked back.
I think people do a lot more that just that.