Sounds like another dweeb that’s butthurt because they thought they were special and smart for being able to click “next, next, next, finish” on an OS installer and now that everyone else is doing it they no longer feel special. Cry harder. You see a lot of this type of gatekeeper from the mediocre. It was “their thing” and now that everyone is doing it, it’s no longer “their thing” and they hate it because it was all they had.

In short, I want Linux to work for me and other technically-minded enthusiasts […] Is this an elitist view? I don’t think so.

Is it elitist to gatekeep Linux for technically minded enthusiasts? Yes.

Especially when they end the article with “I for one hope it never does”. Definition of gatekeeping and toxic elitism.

It’s a running joke in the Linux world: 2016 was the Year of Linux on the Desktop, apparently. Then it was 2017. Then 2018.

We’ve been making this joke since 1998.

Without RAM and hard drives, it will be the ‘Year of No Desktop’.

That was certainly one of the articles of all time.

Linux advocates would likely say that ChromeOS isn’t ‘real’ Linux because it’s specifically made for the mass market.

It’s not a purity test. Most people just don’t mean ChromeOS when they say Linux.

Nevertheless, however easy it might be use Gnome, or KDE, or any of the rest, there hasn’t been a mass migration from Windows.

Why? Because there’s still too much, well… Linux in there.

No, it’s because most people don’t know what Linux, an OS or an ISO is and wouldn’t know where to start changing their operating system if they even realise it’s a possibility.

This article is just the author tearing down a succession of strawmen of his own making + some big linux NIMBY vibes.

For me, its been the year of Linux on the desktop for like 10 years… :)

I don’t know if any OS will be needed in 900 years.