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Do we really want to be bigger anyway? I kind of like where Linux as a desktop isn't really big enough for all the scammers and malware makers to care.
(And I know it's huge for servers and malware also targets that, but they are usually maintained by professionals, not your parents that would probably run every shell script they are offered as help)
If Linux would become the biggest desktop os you are going to find so much more bad advice whenever searching for help online. I wonder if the nice people we have now are really ready for when the terrible people invade the community.
YES. It needs more market share to influence companies financially to make products for it.
It's truly starting to make inroads recently, but it still has a ways to go.
It's also not big enough for gaming companies to truly care, unfortunately.
Thankfully valve does, linux gaming's gotten to a really great state in the last few years.
Perhaps a little lesd nice for those of us already using linux, but definitely better for the majority of people for getting less scammed by big corps. But one plus for us would be better support for apps and games that are still mostly or exclusively on other OSes.
Yeah kind of partially agree but not entirely sure what to say man. I've had my windows machine and my Linux box hacked in the past, didn't do much besides ruin my ability to do my homework and general productivity, so I can't say much.
I would prefer there to be more actual meaningful stuff out there for there to be hacked and or made different but a lot of the time almost all complex systems compound into or towards static failure, just look at the USA with being a military hegemony like Sparta or China slowly running out of people to sell junk to, the big oil companies slowly trying to micromanage the shift to renewables, people that believe in conformity, confucianism and "the myth of stability" ironically usually slow down all of societies progress rather than supporting an actual stable diffusion of change
So many distros, getting bigger overall with maybe one popular linux distro doesnt have the issue when there are so alternatives.