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Linux continues to be above 4% on the desktop
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Honestly the desktop of the future is Chrome OS if we are being honest
haven't laughed like that in ages thank you for that
I'm dead serious. Just look at the younger generation
the younger generation is fed up with crappy cromebooks stuffed with even more spyware that they're forced to use by their school.
But at least some of them will buy what they grew up on
Chromos will definitely be big, but its limitations mean that it won't definitely not be able to just take it over.
And given that it relies on Linux apps to run non Android or web apps, AKA desktop apps, I'm quite happy if it grows—Linux development becomes encouraged.
Nah, m8, desktop and ChromeOS, these two words don't go in the same sentence together
The future as in this will dominate some day or as in this will be the best some day? Cause only one seems reasonable to me.
Chrome OS has a simplified desktop experience. I think people who don't do technical work and that grew up with Chrome OS will continue to use Chrome OS
Never gonna happen because Google will stop developing it any day now.
I seriously doubt it
Yeah I kinda doubt it too. However there's a real possibility for them to eventually replace it with Android, once they get the desktop mode finished up. Especially given how they've started caring about costs lately, maintaining two OSes with a lot of overlap might trigger some axing.