Year of the Linux desktop. Winning by, not ever improving in terms of UX but rather the accelerated pace of their suicidal competition.
Linux keeps getting more attractive, not because its devs suddenly mastered UX, but because Apple and Microsoft keep alienating their users. Apple hasn’t shipped anything useful in a decade apart from Memoji, and Microsoft’s busy forcing everyone into its Copilot-powered cloud.
If someone really manages to make Linux easy to use, hassle-free, aesthetically pleasing, and simple to install and set up, it could become the best alternative for desktop users. I’m actually using the Arch-based Omarchy right now, and I like where it’s going - it already ticks a lot of those boxes.
Microsoft, on the other hand, is slowly digging its own grave. The more powerful they make the online versions of Outlook, Word, and PowerPoint, the less reason I have to stay on Windows at all.
(Yeah, it took me three hours to get my OpenVPN setup working on Omarchy - but I’ll take that cost over Microsoft’s “experience” any day.)