Re: List of 787 MS products

On 2024-10-30, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

On 2024-10-30 2:46 a.m., RonB wrote:

On 2024-10-29, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

On 2024-10-29 3:08 a.m., RonB wrote:

On 2024-10-28, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

On 2024-10-28 12:48 p.m., DFS wrote:

On 10/26/2024 9:30 AM, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
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Le 24-10-2024, DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> a écrit :

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Let say that the major part of this list is only different versions of
the same product. I'll try o remember that when you say there are too
many Linux distros.

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Right now distrowatch lists 165 active x86_64 desktop Linux distros.
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But 8-10 distros make up 90% of Linux desktop users.
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What's the lesson here?

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People fork for the sake of forking rather than to improve anything.

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The lesson? Linux is open source and people are free do what they want with
it. No justification needed for forking it.
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Choice is good.

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It is great in theory, but everyone seems to want to have their own
distribution so rather than working together for a common goal, they're
working apart. Theoretically, the improvements go into the same pool no
matter what but I wonder if they actually do.

 
It's great in practice. I don't WANT everyone working for a common goal, or
a single distribution. One distribution could be controlled by one group of
people. One distribution could more easily be attacked with an exploit. The
so-called "weakness" in Linux (too many distributions) is to me its
strength. It's how it says completely open source.
 
Choice is good.

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I'm noticing that a lot of people who think the way you and I do have
lost confidence in Linux and have started to move toward other projects
like Serenity, BSD, Haiku and now RiscOS. Linux is starting to smell as
bad as Marx did so some people with traditional values who also hate
proprietary software are opting to jump ship.

I'm guessing you didn't look up Serenity or RiscOS. Serenity has to be
compiled in Linux and it runs in QEMU (as a virtual machine). RiscOS is
designed for Raspberries and other small ARM CPU, one board computers.

Serenity touts a 1990s style desktop with a late 2000s Linux vibe. I'm
trying to figure out why that's even a "thing."

But if people want it, that's their choice and they're welcome to it.

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