I&#x27;ve never really had much trouble running linux on notebooks. It makes no difference, a notebook is just a slow desktop with a built-in UPS. So the year of the linux desktop was probably sometime around 2004, when driver support got good enough for most hardware. Earlier if you didn&#x27;t care about working video drivers.<p>But have desktops really been eclipsed by notebooks outside of my little bubble? I don&#x27;t know very many people who even own a notebook, and I personally only have one for work.