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  • Nah, completely wrong take.

    Linux can be adapted to fit any use case you have, and that’s an important part of its flexibility. What you really are getting at is that mass producing a machine with an OS built into it is convenient for consumers. See Android phones or Steam decks for evidence of this convenience being important to the sale of Linux based devices.

    In the not too distant future, windows will go out of fashion for the home desktop PC. Someone will sell a cheap and cool arm based PC with a decent distribution. It will be a slow win, nothing like what we saw from macOS.


  • You could say this exact same thing about any invention.

    “But why would anyone want to speak into a wire? There’s literally no point.”

    “Are you seriously going to wrap your food in plastic? There’s literally no point.”

    “Who will want to type on a phone without any buttons? There’s literally no point.”

    “Nobody is going to want to eat meat grown in a lab. There’s literally no point.”

    Not everything needs to be built with a use in mind, and even if it has a small user base at first, needs change over time. For all we know this is visionary and ahead of its time, but we don’t know it yet.





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    1 year ago

    I think due to our federated nature here we likely have a bit of an echo chamber effect where we are more likely to agree with each other. For starters you’re more likely to be using Lemmy if you understand tech.

    Sharing these same thoughts on pretty much any platform with more active users, and I expect we’d see a lot of blood thirsty capitalists poor into the comments.