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I think he's referring to the fact that, while everyone jokes about "year of Linux on the desktop": In the last 30 years, we moved overwhelmingly from local wo
by rpdillon 1y ago
I think he's referring to the fact that, while everyone jokes about "year of Linux on the desktop":
In the last 30 years, we moved overwhelmingly from local workloads to internet workloads
We moved overwhelmingly away from desktop and to mobile
Android is the dominant mobile OS, and it's hand-in-hand with Linux at the kernel level
The internet, meanwhile, is powered overwhelmingly by Linux
So I tend to agree that just because normal folks think of "computing" as the Windows or Mac machine sitting in front of them, the world is now predominantly powered by Linux.
- 1718627440 1y ago... GNU/Linux smth. ...
- rpdillon 1y agoI generally appreciate the distinction, but I purposely did not use that distinction here because Android is only Linux if you don't include GNU.
- 1718627440 1y agoThe distinction is relevant here, because "year of Linux on the desktop" doesn't refer to Android. The philosophy of "Linux" is that the user has control. That applies more to BSD than Android. Also it's "on the desktop".
- rpdillon 1y agoI fear we're talking past one another.
- 1718627440 1y agoOh sorry is it correct that you meant, that the "year of Linux on the desktop" doesn't matter anymore, because computing switched to mobile and servers and there the Linux kernel is dominating, while I understood that you mean that Android counts toward the "year of Linux on the desktop"?
- rpdillon 1y agoYep, exactly!