I'm fairly confident that yes, this will be the year of the Linux desktop:

2024 = 20 | 24

20 x 3 + 16 = 76, which is the ASCII value of 'L'.

24 x 3 + 12 = 84, which is the ASCII value of 'T'.

= LT = Linux Torvalds

I'm so thankful for the mathematicians of HN! Hear hear! Year of Linux!

Always has been (the linux desktop is the terminal!)

It's fun I know. I want to know why you multiplied them with 3 and then added by 16 & 12 respectively. Any relation

A mathematician never reveals their secrets! Good thing for you I ain't a mathematician and barely finished high school!

I started out with wanting to get 76 and 84 by multiplying with 3 (because 3 is a magic number), then just adding whatever to get the number I wanted.

Yes, it's all a sham and a bamboozle. I'm sorry to let you down.

I assume its because using 16 & 15 hasn't worked since 2023, and likewise only 16 & 9 will work for 2025

It will take a few more years for Chromebooks to take over parts of the Windows market share. It's sad but the Steam Deck and Chromebooks are most likely the closest the Linux Desktop will ever come in the next decades.

Nope, I’ve been informed it’s the year of the dragon. Looking at the list, there doesn’t seem to be a year of the Linux desktop.

So, Dragon Linux?

Every year is the year of Linux desktop :P

Desktop Linux is:

* Easy (and gratis) to obtain

* Easy to install, these days, on most machines

* Behaves nicely out of the box - usually, with most popular distributions

* Has good software catering to most user's daily needs, and is well-internationalized and well-localized for the most part.

* Looks nice :-)

So, yes, I'd say that these days, every year is the year of the Linux Desktop.

Installed linuxmint on an old mac mini 2011 and it work quite well. When I think about the tiny desktop format, I believe you can put linux mint on it and got a great general desktop that way, more reliable than a laptop.

Maybe the decade of linux desktop

again!