Post AX759mxmFbKUCsUKoa by sequentialsnep@cyberfurz.social
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(DIR) Post #AX72W6oKq20qGu1VCa by lore@berserker.town
2023-06-27T09:33:17Z
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insisting that the whole world run Linux is a little bit like being a revolutionary communist. your idealism is admirable, but...
(DIR) Post #AX759mxmFbKUCsUKoa by sequentialsnep@cyberfurz.social
2023-06-27T10:02:49Z
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@lore I ran linux as my main os from 2008-14. I'm not that good with the OS stuff and I always had to use my macbook to sort out the graphic drivers that always broke with every update on the linux machine lol. One day the linux machine totally bricked itself and I just went osx only (gaming at 17fps via bootcamp is pain). 2020 I finally got a windows machine again.I find linux essential for the stuff I do for work. For personal use? Fuck that. I ain't got time to do system admin. I just wanna play games or do my productive stuff. osx or windows for me.
(DIR) Post #AX75iKEp2e6nFjvg80 by benis@cawfee.club
2023-06-27T10:09:05.786136Z
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@lore >the overwhelming majority of servers run some sort of GNU plus Linux>the overwhelming majority of smartphones run Android plus Linux>the overwhelming majority of smart and smart-ish appliances run busybox plus Linux under some awful custom UI>a growing minority of portable gaming machines run GNU plus Linux, the rest run BSDThe future is here already
(DIR) Post #AX75riZ9xaBtJLv8d6 by Zergling_man@birds.garden
2023-06-27T10:10:48.292870Z
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@benis @lore And we have seen the dream crumble into reality.
(DIR) Post #AX76K3vE9Wozeal4SW by lore@berserker.town
2023-06-27T10:15:55Z
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@Zergling_man @benis yeah, so, this basically isn't what i had in mind, and neither did most Linux fans of the 90s.we pictured a future where people would use PC Linux distributions, clearly branded as such, and nobody would need to pay for an OS anymore.*that* future has completely failed to materialise. your average member of the public has no awareness that their router is running Linux. and a vendor could easily swap it out for something else for the next version of their hardware, and the consumer would be no wiser.what has happened is that the Linux kernel and a tiny part of the GNU userspace has taken over various "background" operations that no one notices anyway.
(DIR) Post #AX77CiTPbFFx3ioD7A by lore@berserker.town
2023-06-27T10:25:48Z
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@Zergling_man @benis now, i'll give Google the benefit of the doubt and assume that they chose to isolate their app ecosystem completely from the underlying OS because they wanted it to be hardware independent, but another side effect it has is that they can walk away from Linux whenever they want to, because all their money is invested the app ecosystem, which sits on a separate layer.
(DIR) Post #AX7BsoGspiCX1JHAfY by Amikke@qoto.org
2023-06-27T11:18:13Z
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@lore @Zergling_man @benis why would you give them that, it was obvious from the very beginning that they wanted a maximally closed ecosystem controlled by them and chose Linux only because developing their own OS would’ve taken way too long and be less efficient than just taking Linux and setting what is effectively an entire proprietary other OS layer on top of it.