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On The Year of the Linux Desktop

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It is, apparently, indefinitely delayed due to the advent of a completely new class of devices that no longer need desktops. Pity. In a recent discussion on <a href="http://hates-software.com">Hates Software</a>, one commenter noted: <bq>Those of us with jobs and credit cards won't put up with that nonsense and will pay for the problem to go away.</bq> <iq>That nonsense</iq> to which he refers is any of the typical just-download-the-sources-and-compile-it-yourself claptrap peddles by those who don't understand a good-goddamned-thing about usability. Reminds me of recent discussions of Git and it's approach to the human interface.