The Linux Desktop of the Future
One of the things I love about Linux is the ambitious and creative people behind it. Anyone with a text editor and a compiler is free to make up whatever strange software experiment they want, without needing to get approval from a huge corporation. With all of these amazing ideas flying around, it made me think, “what would the Linux desktop look like in ten or twenty years?” Although my predictions may be insane, I believe that the Linux desktop will have a mind of its own and in most cases, make it’s own choices based on the person using it.
Linux distributions such as Ubuntu already customize themselves to the user as the user uses the system, but to a really small extent. Think about the common user that installs Ubuntu for the first time. He or she wants to play an MP3 file, but the codecs are not installed. The distribution offers to fetch them, it does, and then the music file starts playing. All without opening a browser and looking for the software manually.
That isn’t unlike how I see the Linux desktop of the future.
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