The Linux desktop: With great success comes great failure | Linux Today

The Linux desktop: With great success comes great failure

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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Nov 14, 2018

Linux is both the most popular operating system and a niche end-user OS. How can that be? Follow along, my friends, and I’ll tell you.

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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

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