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I would suspect that hacker/geek user share of Linux users is smaller than all other user categories together. I don't want to belittle any group btw, just coun
by Yizahi 1y ago
I would suspect that hacker/geek user share of Linux users is smaller than all other user categories together. I don't want to belittle any group btw, just counting share. So I suspect that many more people need monitor related features than thin client features. Thus a project supporting (or at least aiming to) the former wins in popularity over the project focused on the latter.
Same reason systemd won btw. More people (again, I suspect, I'm not collecting stats, only observing market situation) want features from systemd than people wanting complete transparency and plain text support of the init scripts.
I wish good luck to people trying to support X11, but it will be hard for them I guess.
- Gud 1y agoProbably so but you don’t hear hackers arguing for less software choices. “Oh, they’re a minority, who gives a shit about their wishes anyway”. systemd didn’t “win”. It might be the most popular init system for Linux. Feel free to use whatever init system you want. I’m not looking to deprecate it
- Yizahi 1y agoSorry if I was making that impression, I wish both projects good luck and success.