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1. Re: Linux will be unstoppable in 2026 (Marghanita da Cruz)
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Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2026 09:34:43 +1100
From: Marghanita da Cruz <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: [LINK] Linux will be unstoppable in 2026
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It would be useful to hear of predictions for 2026. Perhaps allow voting
on a prediction.
It would be useful to know how many 2025 predictions came true.
We were all here for the Internet Revolution and bursting of D0T.COM
bubble way back in 2000.
Ihave bought several PCs with MS License that I never used infavour of
Linux. But it seems that we can have a fight over versions. (FYI Red Hat
has naming rights on tower in North sydney CBD)
So, I would like to refine the prediction that PCs are purchased in 2026
with optional operating system licenses.
Marghanita
PS Circa 1984, I made a boo boo and technically recommended a Northstar
PC, running CPM, for Corporate use over MSDOS PC.
PPS Good luck telling kids there was life before the Internet & Google &
Facebook & maybe even TIK TOK.
PPS saw somewhere Zoom had it's genesis in 1995 but it took the COVID
bug to give it a boost but gov edicts require use of MSTeams.
On 1/2/26 15:48, David wrote:
> On Tuesday, 30 December 2025 03:29:43 AEDT Stephen Loosley (quoting
> zdnet.com) wrote:
>
>> For Linux, I see more desktop distributions aimed at ex-Windows users. As a
>> result, the Linux desktop, which has already been growing faster than ever,
>> will continue to grow even faster. Microsoft is helping by continuing to
>> push AI down Windows users' throats. Attention Satya Nadella, Microsoft's
>> CEO: Windows fans don't want AI. Sure, some do. Most, however, don't.
>>
>> In addition, as my colleague on the Windows side of life, Ed Bott, points
>> out, Microsoft's current course toward more restrictions on which
>> applications Windows can run, and a monthly subscription model for Windows,
>> is almost certain to disillusion even hardcore Windows users.
> Perhaps Microsoft plans their future exclusively in the corporate market?
> Most large corporations would see their annual "subscription" simply as a tax
> deduction and a relatively small part of the cost of doing business. And
> most small to medium enterprises would probably consider migration as too
> hard, assuming they were even aware of the possibility in the first place.
>
> In any case, many employees use a laptop provided by their employer, so their
> personal lives are still available to the Googles of this world anyway.
>
>> However, while AI will be used to help develop the Linux kernel, no one is
>> predicting, a la Windows, that AI will be used to rewrite the entire
>> codebase by 2030.
> So if AI is "trained" on the OSS codebase, wouldn't it be just an amazing
> coincidence if the result looked like (and was even compatible with) Linux?
> And think of all those interesting Linux packages which might become
> available at no cost.
>
> I see RUST is available as standard in the OpenSuSE 15.6 Linux distribution.
>
> What an interesting year 2026 is promising to be, and on all fronts too!!
> Have a good one anyway, everyone...
>
> _DavidL_
>
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