[LINK] Linux will be unstoppable in 2026

[David]

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.
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> 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_