• Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
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    605 months ago

    I’ve been a Mac user since the late 80s and the news of its dominance has escaped me.

    • 555
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      305 months ago

      <arch joke>

    • @[email protected]
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      5 months ago

      Whenever someone brings up distro wars in just remind them we’re not using windows.

    • Vik
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      45 months ago

      And the Linux / Unix-specific ecosystem & technology arguments therein.

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          Because everybody knows who it’s made by (one of the biggest corps who hates freedom). Just because one brick of a building is open source doesn’t mean the entire building is great.

          Might as well promote a Chinese Linux distro and ignore the possible implications of its source.

          Anti Commercial-AI license

          • @c10l
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            85 months ago

            UNIX != open source.

            In fact, most flavours have historically been commercial and proprietary.

              • @c10l
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                65 months ago

                You responded to “macOS is UNIX” with “it’s not open source”. I’m just illustrating how these 2 things are not correlated.

                In any case, macOS is based on OpenBSD. Even the original BSD, which OpenBSD is based on, was not initially open source.

                Everything you said was a straw man.

            • Prison Mike
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              25 months ago

              I think people like to say it isn’t simply because they don’t agree with Apple.

              It’s UNIX but the way it’s set up both is and isn’t aligned with UNIX conventions, and it’s definitely off base with Linux despite the ease with which Linux utilities can be ported.

              • @c10l
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                35 months ago

                Linux is quite an oddball in the UNIX world, tbh. It’s the most popular these days, and the one I’m most familiar with, but most Linux OSs are a lot more GNU than they are UNIX.

    • @[email protected]
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      15 months ago

      Yeah only makes sense if you call it “desktop *NIX dominance” or maybe just “non-Windows dominance.”

  • Prison Mike
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    105 months ago

    I love Linux but I wish the BSDs weren’t getting left behind.

    For the record, I really like macOS and Apple products as my “consumer” devices but all my side projects, web servers, routers, etc. run Linux. I ran FreeBSD for a long time until I got into containerization and Docker.

  • Caveman
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    45 months ago

    IT’S THE YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP!

  • PLAVAT🧿S
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    15 months ago

    Count me in! Switched to Linux Mint for my DD last month.

    Only thing I’m missing is a very dead simple 3D modeling replacement for the Windows one (the others have a steep learning curve). I’ll have to find a browser based option…

    • Caveman
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      35 months ago

      It’s unfortunate that the Adobe suite is not on Linux. FreeCAD and Blender are the standard of 3D modeling on Linux but Adobe Web has been picking up steam lately.

      If you have two computers you can add the program to Steam on Windows and Stream it.

      If it’s not very performance heavy then you could run it in a VM and use something like Dropbox or Mega to sync your work through the Internet.

      If the files are very large I’m not sure, but I think you might be able to mount a shared filesystem that’s used by both the VM and the Linux host

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    Report: Linux was on 6.34 percent of computers last month if you count ChromeOS.

    What are the reasons one wouldn’t count ChromeOS? I guess I don’t know much about it, is it somehow “less Linux” than your run of the mill Ubuntu/Debian, Arch, openSUSE, etc?