{"id":126,"date":"2007-07-09T04:02:59","date_gmt":"2007-07-09T04:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntucat.wordpress.com\/2007\/07\/09\/another-tired-phrase-year-of-the-linux-desktop\/"},"modified":"2007-07-09T04:02:59","modified_gmt":"2007-07-09T04:02:59","slug":"another-tired-phrase-year-of-the-linux-desktop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/another-tired-phrase-year-of-the-linux-desktop\/","title":{"rendered":"Another tired phrase: Year of the Linux Desktop"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently, another year of the Linux desktop<\/i> article appeared: “2008: Year of the Linux Desktop” by Robert Strohmeyer<\/a> <\/p>\n

Why? <\/p>\n

There are always great steps in Linux desktop development. There are always more and more people trying out desktop Linux. Does there need to be a “year of the Linux desktop”? Like Linux isn’t ready for the desktop,<\/i> the phrase year of the Linux desktop<\/i> has no definite agreed-upon definition, but it does hint that basically a huge shift will occur where hoards of Windows users will drop Windows and suddenly start using a Linux distro as their main desktop operating system. <\/p>\n

But I don’t remember there being a year of the Firefox desktop. Was it 2003? 2004? 2005? 2006? What year was the<\/i> year of the Firefox desktop? We’re up to 25% browser share in Europe and about 15% worldwide, but did that happen over the course of any one year? Of course not. There wasn’t a year of the MySpace page. There wasn’t a year of the Google search engine. There wasn’t a year of the iPod player. These phenomona happened quickly but never in one huge clump. <\/p>\n

Linux desktop users are a growing population and will continue to be so. We don’t have to elect one year for desktop Linux to be a household name. Think big<\/i>, people—not immediate.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently, another year of the Linux desktop article appeared: “2008: Year of the Linux Desktop” by Robert Strohmeyer Why? There are always great steps in Linux desktop development. There are always more and more people trying out desktop Linux. Does there need to be a “year of the Linux desktop”? Like Linux isn’t ready for… Continue reading Another tired phrase: Year of the Linux Desktop<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}