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year of the linux desktop?
by jimjimjim 10y ago
year of the linux desktop?
- zxcvcxz 10y agoWell it already dominates everything else. I realized every aspect of programming had me interfacing with a Linux system in some way and then decided to just make the switch. I was already using Android, RasPi, IoT devices, linux web servers, linux containers, linux in a VM on Windows, and I'd probably be trying to use "bash on windows" now if I still used Windows. I finally realized that Windows was just getting in the way and decided to get a Linux computer. Honestly using Windows is a much more painful experience than Linux at this point for me. But I'm not doing advanced document formatting like half the people on HN so I have the luxury to just get by with google docs.
- userbinator 10y agoIt's ironic that, despite its intrinsic openness, the biggest users of Linux are in the most closed ecosystems like smartphones/tablets, Chromebooks, various proprietary IoT devices, etc. where being open-source essentially means very little to the ease of users modifying, recompiling, and tweaking the software on them.
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- pjmlp 10y agoNo, it is the year of the Java desktop.
- paride5745 10y agoCareful, Oracle might use this statement!
- pjmlp 10y agoGoogle could have avoided all this mess, if they have done it cleanly together with Sun, or bothered to buy them afterwards. There are quite a few commercial Java vendors with customized versions, like e.g. IS2T with MicroEJ that have licensing agreements in place. http://www.microej.com/ http://www.microej.com/ If Google loses the trial, they will be paying much more than they would have spent.