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Where desktop is a computer that is on your desk (or under) and where alive is at least 5% marketshare.
by kenjackson 16y ago
Where desktop is a computer that is on your desk (or under) and where alive is at least 5% marketshare.
- rbanffy 16y agoThere is a computer on my desk, but my e-mail is processed elsewhere, just like my paycheck, my corporate purchases, my calendar, my project management tools, my collaboration suite and a lot of the software I develop. My desktop computer hosts a browser, a text editor, an application server (more or less identical to the one that runs my applications - on a more or less identical OS) and, on occasion, an IDE and its own replica of another set of servers. If I weren't developing software, whatever is on my desk wouldn't be relevant, as long as it could host a browser. I can also tell you, for the traffic I get on my blog, that Linux is very well alive in the web development world. I am sure my posts won't attract the average VB6, corporate-drone, shirt-and-tie Windows developer, but, honestly, who cares? The worthy among them will evolve into something, given time. I don't care for those who don't.
- kenjackson 16y agoWell then Linux is already the most dominant OS ever! Discussion over, because clearly I have nothing to trump your web logs. And lord knows that anyone who uses Windows is hardly human and the fact that we let them live is a testament to our lord Linus. But if you do wish to kill some of them tonight, no one could blame you. Right?
- rbanffy 16y agoEven VB6 programmers are people, Ken. And yes. Linux is pretty much alive and well in a lot of places. Face it: most of the world couldn't care less with what OS and browser they use to get to Gmail or Facebook. They don't buy OSs. Dell buys OSs for them.