Subj : Re: Windows vs Linux
To   : Spectre
From : tenser
Date : Sat Apr 23 2022 02:36:58

On 22 Apr 2022 at 10:18a, Spectre pondered and said...
 
 Sp>  te> Yes, that's the point.  The number of embedded devices absolutely
 Sp>  te> dwarfs desktop systems, and even mobile devices.
 Sp> 
 Sp> That doesn't make it a "user" system though.  Those same devices could
 Sp> run on a couple of jam tins and a piece of string and the owner would be
 Sp> none the wiser. Sure its a practical application of the underlying
 Sp> layers of linux but not something you can generally use for anything
 Sp> other than the hardware was designed for.

That last part is debatable, as is shown by the thriving
hacker community that regularly repurposes special-purpose
hardware.  But the point was, in the context of people
worrying about "dumbing down" Linux because they like to
customize their user experience, a) desktop Linux is
already a minority use-case even within the Linux community,
and b) that's really not a useful measure of "success" for
Linux as a project.

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