Issue #298 / Sep 2025

Several years ago, the Linux crowd was spending a lot of time waiting for Linux to arrive and explode onto the general PC consumer market. Every year was supposed to be "the year of the Linux desktop." Ubuntu, in particular, had grand ambitions to be the operating system of the future and cultivated a flashy in-crowd image much like Apple did.

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