Alright. Let's talk about the esr blogpost. Will Windows become a linux distro with an emulation layer over it? Personally, I wouldn't rule it out, but extrapolating that from a edge port for linux is a bit far fetched I think.
Alright. Let's talk about the esr blogpost. Will Windows become a linux distro with an emulation layer over it? Personally, I wouldn't rule it out, but extrapolating that from a edge port for linux is a bit far fetched I think.
I disagree about WSL and Proton hurting Linux. Specifically about Proton I feel that its ability to bring Windows users over to Linux far outweighs its downsides in making devs not focus on native applications. Again only time will tell but if a game runs perfect on Proton I legitimately do not know what the problem is. Also on your last point I literally brought up how companies are starting to ship devices with Linux operating systems pre-installed. Again only time will tell but I firmly believe that there will be a point where Linux operating systems rule the desktop market. It might not be Ubuntu, Arch, or Fedora but the idea of an open source kernel and operating system is legitimately just better.
The idea is better, of course. But nothing really points to Linux taking over. Computer manufacturers have been giving the option to buy one with Linux for a little bit now, it hasn't changed much.
The average person is going to stick to what they know. If anyone who isn't a techie gets a computer with Linux pre installed it will either be because they didn't know, or because their Linux fanboy nephew told them to. Either way they will just get annoyed that it's different and likely take it back.
And again, WSL allows even those who might be willing to use Linux to get away with just using WSL and otherwise sticking to Windows. That's exactly what I do. I only have Ubuntu installed because I thought it would be neat to triple boot all three major OSes.