That’s not wrong but a seperate problem mainly caused by lock-in strategies that are not exactly the same as marketshare or industry standards and are explicitly distinct from the actual OS’s capabilties.

I know enough people who have the exact same problem but with Apple as their employer forces them to use software only available there. Yet their marketshare for desktops is just a tiny fraction of what we see for Windows (~15% if we are optimsitic).

So will we pretend that Linux with a 10 or 15% marketshare (not that far off for an OS with already 5+%) is suddenly a valid alternative. Or are we honest and acknowledge that this is indeed NOT about Linux’ capability to be a valid Windows replacement but purely about the fact that there isn’t (an never will be…) a massive corporation spending billions in marketing and lobbying to create perceived standards simply by throwing money at the problem for even higher future gains?

But what will I do if marketshare of Linux does not increase properly? Oh, wait… who cares? I just use Linux for my daily work but are not a shareholder that needs constant massive growth of imaginary numbers.

by factor of 3 obviously…

And adhering to the law would kill my thriving “pay me a dollar and I allow you to club a billionaire to death”-business. So what?

Did an AI write these bullshit ramblings just parroting PR fluff texts provided by those distros?

This is just a theory but maybe worth a thought:

Could it be possible that acceptance in a certain community up to the point where it’s just a non-issue that is totally separated from what the community does, bring a lot of people to the public view that exist everywhere else, too, just not that openly?

There was in fact some minor friction on IT events some years ago where people objected to stuff partly looking more like a pride event. Yet the majority didn’t care and there was barely any active pushback. And so it normalised very quickly and now it is just how it is. In my personal view at least for the benefit of all involved.

Apparently this is about neither DRM

It’s not about the DRM people think about… but the Direct Rendering Manager

Wouldn’t it be great if just one company per 10 articles about European companies “looking for alternatives” was actually ditching US services for European alternatives?

So you know that it’s ok…

UEFI standard requires support for FAT and then can implement other file systems for the EFI System Partition.

But no vendor actually implements any with the exception of those forced to include APFS by Apple. So FAT is the de facto standard for all ESPs for years.

But at that point pihole is just a fancy web interface with some nice looking but for most purposes useless graphs. I just let Unbound filter stuff with the same filter lists pihole would use.

YMMV… but in my experience that whole “time to maintain arch”-idea is overstated.

I defintiely spend less time on issues like “oh, there’s a bug. let’s role that update back and try again in 6-24 hours when it’s fixed” or “defaults changed in a new version, let’s take a quick look at the changes” on arch than on annoying bugs persisting for years in fixed distros. And that’s before calculating the whole “distro upgrade every otehr year”-stuff. Which likes to kill a whole weekend at least and barely ever works (followed by the same “oh, defaults changed” but now on dozens of components at the same time).

And because of that second point in particular even if archlinux wouldn’t be my choice I could never go back to a non-rolling release.

Sounds like every perfectly normal load-bearing wall I have ever seen…

Yet sometimes the only reasonable guess is that they coded in undocumented brainfuck.

Word of the say: Syzygy

Activists and consumer groups can do a better job exploiting social media virality to reach young Americans.

I actually doubt they can, as the algorithms controlling visibility are all about money and they can’t compete in that regard with those big actors actively working for the stultification of people.

Also: not an US problem at all, but a global one.

I am very unique… solely based on the the referer 🤣

Yes, I read the article (that’s were my “number of lines” come from…). But does including this in the article make a shitty article any better?

It’s basically “Linux kernel hits record low” (also the title) followed by “but by other metrics it looks different” and then… nothing. No actual analysis, no context. Just randomly presenting numbers (and even admitting their headline metric isn’t worth much) and pretending that’s an article.

That’s stupidly lazy…

Because “number of commits” is such a relevant metric (for reference 85% of the commits resulted in 110% of added lines compared to 2023).

Are people too lazy to talk about actual features and stuff added, so they compare some arbitrary number because that’s a stat easily pulled from the data?

PS: Nice to see the comments talking about “woke” developers… Guess the culture war brain rot really spreads everywhere 🤮

But then developers refuse to support that. With missing kernel-level stuff just being an excuse for being intentionally Linux-hostile…