I credit Minecraft with getting an entire generation comfortable using command line statements.

Linux phones, Linux gaming machines, Linux on Desktop and Laptops, Linux VR/AR, Linux watches, etc.

So I run my app in a linux container under windows and I'm exempt from age verification? Isn't android linux under the hood? I'm sure the law is not so easy to get around. How does it work?

The thing is, unfortunately most people will not notice and be aware of what this means. (and which effect it may have on market share etc.)

And most techies are already primarily on Linux and its derivatives.

System 76, framework and a pinebook I am covered.

so... we are back to a monopoly, but now government-enforced one

I'm a lifelong Apple fan but my kids have Steam Decks and Raspberry Pis. I hope they grow to love Linux.

Is 2027 the year of the Linux desktop?

Yes and the end of locked down Apple iDevices.

And it always will be!

I've been hearing about this since the late 90s.

Just in time for the kernel and its consequences to become completely hostile to anyone not paying for a frontier model. If I was 16 again and evaluating linux only to see everyone using LLMs to reason about the mess they've put themselves in I don't know if I would have even bothered. The promise of "you can just read and learn about it yourself" has been dead for at least 10 years, but LLMs put the nail in the coffin.

Linux has gone from attracting hippies to openly endorsing corporate closed-source products, something something live long enough to become the villain.