TAKE A MOMENTto cast your mind back 15 years to that pre-credit crunch optimism of the mid-2000s. Windows users were appalled by Windows Vista, and a new Ubuntu operating system was claiming that it could displace Windows-despite being based on the fiendishly inaccessible Linux, and thinking that orangey-brown was a good desktop color.
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Well, Windows may not have been wiped out by Ubuntu, but Linux has developed in leaps and bounds since then. It’s more usable than ever before, and key industry players take it much more seriously now. Thanks to Valve and Vulkan, we can play thousands of Windows-only titles on our Linux boxes. More companies than ever are shipping Linux on consumer hardware, too-your wireless hardware probably works with it.