Linux 2.6 released in December 2003. Gnome 2.6 released in March of 2004. At that point Linux was truly ready for the desktop and we’ve just spent the last twenty years waiting for the rest of the world to catch up.

Yes, but Windows is normal and therefore all of its myriad problems are just part-and-parcel with using a computer and can be ignored. Linux is not normal, though, so the slightest roadbump is an instant deal-breaker.

Some day, and that day may never come, he’ll call upon them to do a service for him.

So WipEout, then?

Its ribs are ceiling-beams, its guts are carpeting, I guess we have some time to kill.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MW-BZ98lCco

*Mole Patrol

Backstreet Boys?

Or “Small charcoal grill.”

Plot twist: That’s a window.

That’s a misprint. It’s supposed to be sroom.

There were three Game Boy Castlevanias.

Where is it? I don’t see anything.

If Mark were an ice cream flavour he’d be pralines and dick.

My updog has wormdos.

He was not afraid.

honorable mention goes to the Daewoo CPG-120 which I only just learned about today. it’s a consolized MSX2 that looks like a cross between the Enterprise and a Roomba. i can’t decide if it looks magnificent or awful and it’s arguably not a console to begin with but hey

Dude, spoilers.

Probably a sequel to Virtua Fighter Kids. Or maybe to that visual novel on the Game Gear.

It’ll probably be 2025, when adoption hits 5% a few months before Windows 10 support ends. The 5% will make people take Linux more seriously when looking for alternatives to Windows 10, which will increase adoption even more, which will cause hardware and software providers to offer better Linux support, which will just cause the whole thing to snowball.

Yes, we need to teach dogs how to tell time!