The Perennial Year of the Linux Desktop
It's become a tradition (and a bit of a running joke) for bloggers and tech pundits to declare that this year (whatever year you're in) will be The Year of the Linux Desktop. So in following with that tradition, I'm here to declare that 2010 will be The Year of the Linux Desktop, but not in the sense that many other bloggers have stated. You see, every year is The Year of the Linux Desktop.
Linux has failed to take the desktop OS world by storm as so many have predicted it would. Instead, it continues to slowly pick up users one at a time. As each of these users dip their toes into the GNU/Linux waters and discover that they can not only survive, but thrive in a world without Microsoft Windows or Apple's OS X, they experience their own, personal year of the Linux desktop (YOTLD).
My YOTLD took place in 2004/2005. I'd heard of Linux back in its early days in the '90's, but I didn't really give it much notice. In the Fall of 2005 I read an article about how Linux could breathe new life into older computer hardware. I'd recently built a new computer, so I figured I'd mess around with Linux on the old one.
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