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  • Here's why Linux market share isn't going to skyrocket anytime soon

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  • That's not wrong but a seperate problem mainly caused by lock-in strategies that are not exactly the same as marketshare or industry standards and are explicitly distinct from the actual OS's capabilties.

    I know enough people who have the exact same problem but with Apple as their employer forces them to use software only available there. Yet their marketshare for desktops is just a tiny fraction of what we see for Windows (~15% if we are optimsitic).

    So will we pretend that Linux with a 10 or 15% marketshare (not that far off for an OS with already 5+%) is suddenly a valid alternative. Or are we honest and acknowledge that this is indeed NOT about Linux' capability to be a valid Windows replacement but purely about the fact that there isn't (an never will be...) a massive corporation spending billions in marketing and lobbying to create perceived standards simply by throwing money at the problem for even higher future gains?

  • Here's why Linux market share isn't going to skyrocket anytime soon

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  • But what will I do if marketshare of Linux does not increase properly? Oh, wait... who cares? I just use Linux for my daily work but are not a shareholder that needs constant massive growth of imaginary numbers.

  • What are the benefits of a server having multiple public IP addresses?

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  • by factor of 3 obviously...

  • Clarifying the rules (all comments will be scanned for oldthink by bbGPT; we have always been at war with leopardsatemyface@lemm.ee)

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  • I demand a leopards ate my face senate to properly submit the rules for the mods to follow.

    You just want an opportunity to vote against your own interests to become a "real" part of this community.

  • The 6 Linux distros I recommend most for gaming in 2025 - including my favorite

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  • Did an AI write these bullshit ramblings just parroting PR fluff texts provided by those distros?

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    It do be like that

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  • This is just a theory but maybe worth a thought:

    Could it be possible that acceptance in a certain community up to the point where it's just a non-issue that is totally separated from what the community does, bring a lot of people to the public view that exist everywhere else, too, just not that openly?

    There was in fact some minor friction on IT events some years ago where people objected to stuff partly looking more like a pride event. Yet the majority didn't care and there was barely any active pushback. And so it normalised very quickly and now it is just how it is. In my personal view at least for the benefit of all involved.

  • Torvalds Frustrated Over "Disgusting" Testing "Turd" DRM Code Landing In Linux 6.15

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  • Apparently this is about neither DRM

    It's not about the DRM people think about... but the Direct Rendering Manager

  • Limine 9.0 Bootloader Drops EXT4 File-System Support

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  • UEFI standard requires support for FAT and then can implement other file systems for the EFI System Partition.

    But no vendor actually implements any with the exception of those forced to include APFS by Apple. So FAT is the de facto standard for all ESPs for years.

  • Why Linux is Better Than Windows 11

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  • Sounds like every perfectly normal load-bearing wall I have ever seen...

  • Learn to code

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  • Yet sometimes the only reasonable guess is that they coded in undocumented brainfuck.

  • The Linux Kernel Hit A Decade Low In 2024 For The Number Of New Commits Per Year

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  • Yes, I read the article (that's were my "number of lines" come from...). But does including this in the article make a shitty article any better?

    It's basically "Linux kernel hits record low" (also the title) followed by "but by other metrics it looks different" and then... nothing. No actual analysis, no context. Just randomly presenting numbers (and even admitting their headline metric isn't worth much) and pretending that's an article.

    That's stupidly lazy...

  • The Linux Kernel Hit A Decade Low In 2024 For The Number Of New Commits Per Year

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  • Because "number of commits" is such a relevant metric (for reference 85% of the commits resulted in 110% of added lines compared to 2023).

    Are people too lazy to talk about actual features and stuff added, so they compare some arbitrary number because that's a stat easily pulled from the data?

    PS: Nice to see the comments talking about "woke" developers... Guess the culture war brain rot really spreads everywhere 🤮

  • 2025 Linux Wishlist

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  • But then developers refuse to support that. With missing kernel-level stuff just being an excuse for being intentionally Linux-hostile...

  • 2025 Linux Wishlist

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  • Which are barely more than a first step as they are just the bare minimum with everything else being proprietary and pushed to userspace.

  • xkcd #3015: D&D Combinatorics

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  • then repeat with 1 or 10 being a reroll

    or: repeat with the already rolled number being a reroll

  • shell-mommy is a program that encourages users while using command line applications.

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  • That's a build-in sudo feature, set by Defaults insults in your sudoers file.

  • At least it is ISO 8601

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  • Don't we all know that guy, who is rather stupid and useless but at least has proper standards?

  • Anon questions our energy sector

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  • 130% production on average, with excess being stored, minus losses in conversions, transport and storage = 100% demand covered all the time.

    Or the longer version: For a stable grid I need to cover 100% of the demand in next to real-time. This can be achieved with enough long- and short-term storage, plus some overproduction to account for storage losses. The 115% to 130% production (compared to actual demand) are based on studies for Germany and vary by scenario, with the higher number for the worst case (people strongly resisting all changes to better balance consumption and south Germany keeping up there resistence to diversify by only building solar while blocking wind power).

    The question now is: How much storage do I need? And that answer is varying by much greater amount based on scenario (for example between 50 and 120 GW capacity needed as electrolysis for long term-storage or battery storage between 50GWh and 200GWh).

  • Anon questions our energy sector

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  • Why is nuclear+short term storage not an option

    Because cold winter days exist. Yes you can only build nuclear capacities for the average day and then short-term storage to match the demand pattern. But you would need to do so for the day(s) of the year with the highest energy demand, some cold winter work day. What do you do with those capacities the remaining year as throttling nuclear down is not really saving much costs (most lie in construction and deconstruction)?

  • Anon questions our energy sector

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  • How much renewable production, and bess, does one need to achieve 90% grid uptime? Or 99% grid uptime?

    About 115% to 130%. Depending on diversification of renewable sources and locations. The remains are losses in storage and transport obviously.

    But shouldn't you actual question be: How much storage is needed?

    For a quick summary of those questions you can look here for example...