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My old buddy Bart Decrem (we’re both veterans of the now defunct Eazel) makes an interesting evaluation of desktop Linux, both from a technology perspective and in terms of marketplace developments. But whether Linux outpaces Mac OS X in terms of desktops anytime soon (as Bart believes), I don’t think it’s going to take away from the Mac installed base. More likely it’s a threat to Windows since, in Bart’s words, “desktop Linux is now ‘good enough’ for significant classes of users.” Bart quotes an unnamed source:

Our clients are not asking us to replace all of their Windows desktops. They’re asking us to help them figure out how they can reduce the number of Windows desktops.

Is “good enough” really what’s needed? Hopefully Windows users want something better than that.