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When I went to college in the late '00s I was able to find several other Linux users. The counter culture to the Windows/Mac duopoly was alive and well. In so
by hx8 2y ago
When I went to college in the late '00s I was able to find several other Linux users. The counter culture to the Windows/Mac duopoly was alive and well. In some ways we won by being accepted as mainstream for certain niches. Between WSL, Steamdeck and Docker Linux has seen more adoption than I was expecting.
- psd1 2y agoI've always assumed that Linux's server-side dominance was fated by providing an apache Web server for zero monetary cost. IIS was several years behind and cost money. I can't imagine Facebook running on IIS in 2004, for example.