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coffeelingtoday at 1:59 PM1 replyview on HN

The fucked up thing is Windows is the most stable Linux environment to build against. Linux overall relies far too much on the idea that the software is either actively maintained, or open source and can be recompiled for new systems.


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pjmlptoday at 2:25 PM

I see an advantage of finally having the Year of Desktop Linux, given the current geopolitics.

However until we start seeing those systems being sold on regular stores, with normies distros, it will always be as has been all over these years.

The "everyone is going to migrate to Linux" meme keeps coming up since Windows XP Toy's R us UI, however here we are, Steam Hardware survey 2.20% after two decades, since XP.