Year of GNU/Linux on the Laptop?
GNU/Linux is a rising force, set aside dumb or dismissive jokes about "year of" or Canonical's attack on GNU and the GPL (they want Microsoft GitHub, which is proprietary software that betrays them). In much of the world we see GNU/Linux increasing each month or every year. We mean "proper" GNU/Linux, not some Android or Chromebook "thing".
A week ago we wrote about Lenovo discounting away the "Windows tax" and days later others took note of the same thing. A decade ago Lenovo (now a dominant and leading OEM globally) felt very differently about GNU/Linux.
It's not happening only in Lenovo but also in Huawei and others. Not just in China, either.
Get ready for big changes in the market. Tariffs benefit GNU/Linux because of recycling, cost of Windows-saddled PCs, and the "end" of Vista 10.
We must also (as usual) mention that "Linux" dominates everywhere. It can be found anywhere one looks already, except only on the "desktop" (whose relative importance is waning anyway). █
