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Year of the Linux Desktop: Linus Says Chromebooks and Android Are the Future

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Year of the Linux Desktop split image showing chaotic Linux desktop distributions on left versus clean Android and ChromeOS interfaces on right, with Linus Torvalds quote and timeline 1998-2025

Since at least 1998, the Linux community has been declaring “this will be the Year of the Linux Desktop.” Twenty-seven years later, we’re still waiting. Meanwhile, something interesting happened that the Linux evangelists missed entirely: The Year of the Linux Desktop became the decade of Google everything.

While Linux enthusiasts argued about systemd vs. init and whether GNOME or KDE was superior, Google quietly conquered the world with actual desktop Linux adoption through Android and Chromebooks. They just didn’t ask users to compile kernels or edit config files to make it work.

Even Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux itself, agrees: “Chromebooks and Android are the paths towards the desktop.”

What Linus Torvalds Really Said About Desktop Linux

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Is Microsoft making Windows 11/12 a subscription OS? – ‘Do the Math!’

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Microsoft’s FY 2022 revenue for Windows was a staggering $24,761,000,000.00 (almost 25-Billion dollars). About 1.6-Billion people use a MS Windows OS.

Is Microsoft willing to cut about $25-Billion in revenue each year, or would they rather keep that revenue and focus on ‘Growth’ with an eye towards new revenue sources?

Is Microsoft willing to lose a huge chunk of those 1.6-Billion Windows users by forcing them all to use a Microsoft Windows OS subscription?

Satya Nadella & MS ‘Growth’

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EU to Russia – ‘War in Ukraine is an “existential threat” to Europeans’

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Putin made the biggest mistake in Russian history by reinvading Ukraine. That is now his Legacy, but he keeps hoping that the Europeans and/or the Americans are going to help him save his Legacy—as in, one or both will just abandon Ukraine and the Ukrainians.

Putin had accidentally exposed Russia’s Military weaknesses to the entire Planet Earth, and Putin now hopes that the Europeans and America are going to stand idly by and give Russia the chance to rebuild their once renown Military Power!?

I don’t think so. 🤔 Why not allow Putin to compound his first “biggest mistake in Russian history” by making his second “biggest mistake in Russian history”? With such obviously *BIG* mistakes making going on, it wouldn’t seem to be possible for him to make a third one, but heck—who would’ve guessed back on 2/24/2022 that Ukraine was going to repel that Russian reinvasion and then force Russia into the defensive position.

Sorry, Vladimir “Adolf” Putin, but your Legacy is only going to get worse before you die…

‘Existential Threat’

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Enlargement of NATO: Putin is the “greatest gift to NATO”

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Russia has been an Imperialistic country for centuries – In Are Russia’s Enlargement Dreams Fulfillable? – Mikhail Khodaryonok basically says that ‘constant expansion‘ is in the Russian gene, and is the ‘true existential of our historical existence‘.

In their opinion, for centuries the Russian state, with its harsh and inactive political interior, was preserved solely due to the relentless striving beyond its own borders. It has long forgotten how, and most likely never knew how to survive in other ways.

External expansion, Russian thinkers believe, serves to defuse the internal tension that accumulates in society and which in no case should be released into the wild through liberal experiments.

Putin made a *HUGE* mistake reinvading Ukraine, e.g., he has reminded Nations just how Imperialistic Russia is, and at the same time exposed the weaknesses & disorganization of the entire Russian Military.

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“Meet the Techs of Tomorrow Where They Are Today” — by Ankush Das

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I’ve been piddling wid Linux since 1996, and even tho Win11 Pro is my primary OS I still enjoy piddling wid, testing, and learning about Linux. In this modern world most of us already use 2-3 OSes – maybe without even knowing it, so checking out one more OS isn’t going to be that difficult, IMHO. 👏👍👌🙂

It’s FOSS has a great article by Ankush Das – “Meet the Techs of Tomorrow Where They Are Today”: A Conversation With Stu Keroff:

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