It’s nearly impossible to sum up an entire year of developments in something as large and nebulous as the world of desktop Linux, especially in a year like this one which has seen some the best releases that projects like Mint, Fedora and openSUSE have put out to date.
At the same time the distro that’s closest to being a household name, Ubuntu, has been nearly silent since 14.04 arrived in April.
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