Chazore said:
And yet the deeper core experiences aren't clearly outweighing the casual, that market is making tons more than the dedicated one in terms of downloads and profits. It's never really been significant to those who never cared nor wanted to use Linux, but those that do care can spot the growth throughout it's history quite easily. Mate Windows isn't going to be around for hundreds more years, I think we should accept that no one company lasts for all of time let alone holding some form of control, times changes and that time will come to MS and the OS space in general. |
By that same token Linux isn't going to be around for hundreds more years either, really a dumb statement. linux has basically had no growth on the desktop since the early 2000's, it is a fantastic server platform but has remained a medicore niche desktop one and their doesn't really appear to be any indicators that this is going to change anytime soon especially in the gaming space.
Edit: reminds me of an argument I had with a computing professor writing articles in a journal back in late 90's, he was adamant that linux would be the dominate desktop OS within 5-10 years and that MS would no longer exist. I outlined the reasons this would never occur, at least in the forseeable future and he laughed and even used my quote in one of his articles as an example of someone that didn't obviously understand the trajectory of linux (FYI, I was a linux admin trainer at the time). I wish I had kept copies of those articles as the same is true now as it was back then.
