If desktop Linux is dead, someone had better tell all those users
It seems scarcely a year can go by in the world of computer technology without some eager young blogger or another grandly proclaiming the death of Linux on the desktop.
Here at PCWorld alone, we saw it in late 2010, and now here it is again, resurrected for one more tired round.
I can only speculate as to the authors' motives for making these weary proclamations, because they're nothing if not light on real information. What I can do, however, is point out a few small problems with their arguments.
First and foremost, what does it even mean to say desktop Linux is "dead" if it's being embraced and used by growing numbers of individuals and corporations around the world?
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