Report: Linux was on 6.34 percent of computers last month if you count ChromeOS.
  • CO5MO ✨@midwest.social
    52·
    6 months ago

    This is great! Now if we can only stop talking down to each other for using whatever distro you don’t like bc whatever 🤷🏼‍♀️ I’m loving using diff distros, but dang if the community’s toxicity isn’t a turn off :/

    • blindbunny@lemmy.mlEnglish
      10·
      6 months ago

      Whenever someone brings up distro wars in just remind them we’re not using windows.

    • Auzy@beehaw.org
      4·
      6 months ago

      That’s the biggest issue

      There are so many people in the community who attack developers.

      I had a open source project which I started, it got a lot of media attention but I gave it up because so much of the community is toxic and just made me feel unsure about developing the idea further.

      And lots of other developers are the same. Even with Lemmy, people weren’t going to contribute, but they targeted the developers political beliefs.

      And I see so much crap talking on Lemmy here because developers choose to use GitHub or discord. If you don’t like that, contribute to the project, but don’t try to dictate the project you have no involvement in

      • ___@lemm.ee
        3·
        6 months ago

        I blame developers who use discord. The interface is a mess, the company is enshitifying, and you can’t archive the past.

        It maybe easier, but I question why anyone would willingly choose it over most anything else.

        Note that this is different from being a dick about it and harassing people.

    • Vik@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      6 months ago

      And the Linux / Unix-specific ecosystem & technology arguments therein.

          • c10l@lemmy.world
            8·
            6 months ago

            UNIX != open source.

            In fact, most flavours have historically been commercial and proprietary.

              • c10l@lemmy.world
                71·
                6 months ago

                You responded to “macOS is UNIX” with “it’s not open source”. I’m just illustrating how these 2 things are not correlated.

                In any case, macOS is based on OpenBSD. Even the original BSD, which OpenBSD is based on, was not initially open source.

                Everything you said was a straw man.

            • Prison Mike@links.hackliberty.org
              2·
              6 months ago

              I think people like to say it isn’t simply because they don’t agree with Apple.

              It’s UNIX but the way it’s set up both is and isn’t aligned with UNIX conventions, and it’s definitely off base with Linux despite the ease with which Linux utilities can be ported.

              • c10l@lemmy.world
                3·
                6 months ago

                Linux is quite an oddball in the UNIX world, tbh. It’s the most popular these days, and the one I’m most familiar with, but most Linux OSs are a lot more GNU than they are UNIX.