#2 Ubuntu taking over as default desktop platform for a major company:

This is not a prediction. It has already happened as Google earlier this year officially announced that Ubuntu has taken over the company as their default desktop platform. And the result has just been emphatic. The outcome has now encouraged some of the major companies as this time around, the tech world will see a major shift in the way the business world perceives Linux.

#3 Linux gaining major ground as a gaming platform:

Of lately the gaming world has seen a lot of games coming into the Linux platform. Thanks to Valve porting steam to Linux, now the scenario has totally changed as gaming in a Linux based system is no more a distant dream. This seriously boosted the number of users and designers, as the effects will surely climb up the mountain of the desktop market share of Linux systems.

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