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    I like how the title pretends *nix operating systems don't exist (sh.itjust.works)
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    [–] [email protected] 44 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

    Nah, 2025 is the year of the Linux on the desktop.

    [–] [email protected] 20 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

    we're sure of it this time!

    /s

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

    I mean, I've been hearing it for 15 years, we can't be wrong for that long, right? Which means that next year it's 100%!

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

    Yeah, I also think with just so few alternatives, just by pure chance alone this should already very probably be the year of Linux on desktop

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 18 hours ago

    Hey don't give up on 2024 yet

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

    Would it even be a good thing if Linux became super main stream? Maybe we should be careful what we wish for.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

    How would it be bad? More hardware support, more users not feeding data to corporations, more software support and so on.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

    I'm not sure. I envision a lot of regulatory stuff happening around the kernel as it becomes more popular & vital to infrastructure. As that happens, the direction of it becomes more controlled and eventually maybe becomes unrecognizable.

    But maybe the fact it's open source flat out prevents that?

    I really don't know, I'm not a futurists, I was just internet speculating.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

    The Linux kernel is already popular & vital to infrastructure, servers and Android exist

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 31 minutes ago

    That's true.

    But Android getting more & more locked down as time goes on is a good example of what I'm afraid of might start happening once there are too many cooks in the kitchen.

    I'm just speculating out of nowhere.