The general concensus about Google releasing the first offical developer previews of Google Chrome for Linux (and OS X) ~9 months after announcing the browser for Windows is that it seems late. The expectation has now become that Linux and OS X should be supported alongside Windows from the start.

That’s very different from a few yeras ago. Not long ago, having a Linux or OS X version at all would have been notable if not suprising. Now, though, it is simply expected that any major application that doesn’t come from Microsoft or Apple will have at least an OS X version and, very often, a Linux one, too.

We often don’t realize it, but so much has changed in only a few years. If this trend keeps up, Linux should be just as well supported as Windows in only a few more years.

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