>>>Linux on the desktop is pretty much dead. However, it is alive on mobile.
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>>You're sheltered.
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>Yeah - I'm just overwhelmed by all the new Linux desktop machines I have to deal with (or see in stores, or at client sites, or pretty much anywhere). The numbers are staggering.


And if you hung out with people that only listened to Scandinavian Death Metal, you'd probably think that's the only type of music out there too.

:-)

In my experience, after taking a bit of a hiatus from the whole programming world, and jumping back in and being exposed to different communities and technologies, I am absolutely amazed, not at how diverse the technology eco-system, but how robust and mature each sub-eco-system is.

What I mean by that is if you consider Perl, Ruby, Python, JavaScript, PHP, and many other free and open technologies, and think they're all some hobby languages that are somewhat workable, you'd be very very wrong.