Love this cast and your own personal podcast off this network! 

That being said, I wanted to say something again that I said in one of my podcasts, and that is that the desktop is dead.  Not dead in the sense of no longer being developed, but the whole concept of the desktop is outmoded.  For most people, they're day-to-day is their personal tablet and/or smartphone.  I know many people who no longer would want a desktop or laptop.  For me, my companies computer techs have such a bad system setup that most of the rank and file will use any phone app they can get on they're hands on in order to avoid using the shard desktop machines our company provides. 

I love my personal desktop environment, and the lack of customization for windows and mac keeps me on linux.  Every time I consider going back to windows I eventually end up wistfully checking the status of things like BB4Win and searching for alternative gui shells.  If you care about your personal computing environment, you need linux.  It's like this, in America a car enthusiast would probably want to be in California because California has a "car culture."  If you want your environment to respond to what you think it should be for you, you have to do linux.

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