On Wednesday, June 28, 2017 at 10:29:55 PM UTC-10, Leonard Blaisdell wrote:
> In article >,
> dsi1 <dsi1yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Everybody should hate Windows and Microsoft. What's not to hate? My guess is
> > that you wouldn't care much for Unix if you were forced to use it with a endlessly
> > buggy graphical interface that needed constant fixin'.
>
> I used fvwm2 on Linux. Gnu and KDE were vying for the next great
> desktop manager. They were both terrible at the time on my Mac. I ended
> it all with Linux kernel 2.4, just before kernel 2.6 was ready for
> primetime. Who won the Linux desktop wars? I'm serious. I have no idea.
> When Mac OSX came out, I got UNIX with a great desktop manager,
> embraced it and never looked back. Who won?
> Somebody has to know. Steve? dsi1?
>
> leo

My assumption is that Ubuntu is the most popular flavor of Linux on desktop machines. The most used OS on the planet has Linux at it's core - Android. OTOH, Google wants to change that.

http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/84535.html