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Year of the desktop has been a meme so long the people spouting it have failed to realize that the desktop itself is in decline.
There are many many people for which a mobile phone or tablet is their only computer. If you want to count Android as a Linux distro then year of the Linux desktop has come and gone ten years ago.
Pretty sure most of those people whose smartphone is their only computer would never have had any computer at all otherwise.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/756054/united-states-adults-desktop-laptop-ownership/
That's it's own kind of disaster, TBH. As proprietary as Windows is, at least it's mostly not DRM'd and has the right sort of interface for creating things instead of just consuming content.
I've seen a documentary recently about people leaving in very remote places, I think it was in the mountains in Bhutan (not sure). This family of farmers didn't have electricity in their home, but they had smartphones.
It's probably hard to imagine for someone born in a wealthy country (like myself), but there are probably way more people around the world that have never use a computer but have a smartphone today.
Is iOS BSD like Darwin?
iOS is Darwin