<div dir="auto">I think the year of the Linux desktop is approaching however it is not going to be the Linux that "Linux people want to see" it going to be the sort of Linux that is going to upset him more than when someone just calls it Linux not gnu slash Linux. I think Google really are focused on Chromebooks and they are perfect for the average Joe, they can surf the internet, watch a variety of videos 😀, do some word processing and that is all most people do. For the geeks hopefully the raspberry pi pushes Linux adoption but that is a long way off. Higher education seem to be covering Linux more in computer science based degrees</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 12 Jan 2017 9:04 pm, "Jon Gibbins via Lincoln" <<a href="mailto:lincoln@mailman.lug.org.uk">lincoln@mailman.lug.org.uk</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">I am typing this very email on an Asus C300 Chromebook. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Go figure. :)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Jon</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_3326285478841837026gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><br>Jon Gibbins<div><a href="http://www.JonGibbins.com" target="_blank">http://www.JonGibbins.com</a></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 12 January 2017 at 19:33, Philip Newborough via Lincoln <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lincoln@mailman.lug.org.uk" target="_blank">lincoln@mailman.lug.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 12 January 2017 at 14:59:26, tom bruton via Lincoln<br>
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> Yes here we go again. 2017 is going to be the year of the Linux desktop.<br>
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</span>Haha. Nice try!<br>
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Philip<br>
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