Can we please stop talking about the Linux desktop? | Linux Today

Can we please stop talking about the Linux desktop?

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Matt Asay
Aug 23, 2014

Linus Torvalds may still want a Linux desktop, but no one else does. And even if they did, by the time the requisite ecosystem could be developed, the need for a desktop — Linux or otherwise — will largely be gone.

So, why this persistent fetish for a Linux desktop?

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Matt Asay

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