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The era of these type of "simple" OSes has come to an end. Linux is now the king of hardware support and nothing out there can even try to compete, not even Win
by AshamedCaptain 4y ago
The era of these type of "simple" OSes has come to an end. Linux is now the king of hardware support and nothing out there can even try to compete, not even Windows. And "consumer" hardware support is getting harder and harder; we did not really improve the situation at all from the 90s. Linux drivers, while some of them are not proprietary (before you ask: Android drivers are mostly proprietary), are still inseparably linked to Linux itself, which means that for any non-Linux OS to succeed you first have to reimplement Linux.
- MonkeyClub 4y agoYep, spot on! In the next decade I see even Microsoft moving way more towards Linux. Still unclear on whether they’d ditch the windows kernel for Windows, and adapt the UI for it.
- robinsonb5 4y agoWhile on a practical level I think you're 100% correct, the irony is that there does seem to be a growing appetite for simpler OS projects, which go hand-in-hand with a growing sense of frustration and disappointment with what Linux has become. (In some ways it now represents a lot of what I was trying to escape by moving to it in the first place!)