A screenshot from Back To The Future. Doc has Marty and his girlfriend in the car, and is saying “GUI? Where we’re going, we don’t need GUI!”

  • Dragon Rider (drag)OP
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    -148 days ago

    We did get normies on Linux. 70% of people use an Android phone. That’s Linux.

    Linux can be dead easy to use, and normies can get used to it. It’s just a matter of the technology and the brand, both of which Valve seems to be working on lately. Linux is happening.

    • @herrvogel
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      17 days ago

      Android got people on Linux the same way routers got people on BSD.

      And besides the mobile environment should definitely NOT be used as an example for the desktop space. It’s a disgusting mess of strict vendor controls and proprietary crap trying to put heavy limits on what the user can or cannot do with their hardware. Absolutely don’t want that for my PC. I already have a sneaking suspicion that that’s where we’re headed with ARM on desktop, which is a scary thought.

    • @[email protected]
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      258 days ago

      Android uses the linux kernel. It has little to do with what we actually mean when we say linux IMHO

    • @modus
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      28 days ago

      How do I access the CLI on my phone?