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The linux on the desktop statements were aimed at displacing windows on the desktop in its traditional role in businesses and homes, something that hasn't really happened.

What has happened is that a new class of devices was created that uses linux at the core, but that's not the desktop. (Happy 'linux on the desktop' user here since a very long time, roughly since it supported 'X' and my trusty SGI Indy got too slow to stay with the times).

Anybody that wants rust to replace C (or any other language) would be better of coding than complaining.



I agree, I only wanted to point out the irony of "linux on desktop". It actually happened* (MS failed big time), but not the way it was meant.

You had your own SGI Indy? I only had temporary access to one, but loved it at the time...

EDIT: it happened at home (mobile), not so much in business.


> You had your own SGI Indy?

A whole bunch of them in fact. The only thing surviving from those days are the keyboards. Indestructible.




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