Video by The Linux Experiment
The speaker argues that Linux, at 35, has become a mainstream option across nearly every computing category, even if it has not technically won any. He defines winning as relevance: something people actually consider for personal, professional, gaming, server, and mobile use. On the desktop, Wayland, modern drivers, and universal packaging formats have made Linux stable and attractive, though the distro model and professional app gaps remain unresolved. He sees Mac OS-level relevance arriving within roughly five years.
For gaming, Valve turned Wine into a near-universal compatibility layer and lifted Linux’s Steam share severalfold, though anti-che is still the central obstacle. Servers are settled: Linux is the default. Mobile is contested, since Android uses the kernel but departs so far from the usual stack that he refuses to count it. He closes by warning that mainstream status brings both benefits and threats, placing Linux at a turning point rather than a triumphant arrival.