Compared to Windows, Linux is more of a niche OS for hobbyists. (My everyday device is a desktop, not a router.)
Then by any means, use Windows.
Your point is what exactly? Operating systems need a certain market share to be good? Lol. Seriously, just lol.
Never made that point. What I said is that NetBSD is a niche OS for hobbyists, and that if I wanted to run Linux software, instead of relying on emulation, I would rather just use Linux.
Enjoy your 3% niche OS.
Did I hit a nerve here?
Anyway, funny that you would want to make that point when you yourself use NetBSD. You and the other five people running it on a desktop computer must be having a lot of fun I suppose.
Virtually every SaaS platform runs on Linux. Half of the embedded devices out there run on Linux. 70% of cellphones run on Linux. Essentially, there is no way you would be online without interacting with a Linux-based OS in one way or another.
Even compared to FreeBSD, NetBSD is more of a niche OS for hobbyists.
I’m sorry, I thought we were comparing BSD to Linux. And why would I use BSD if there isn’t a single piece of software I need that isn’t available on Linux as well, but others, like Kubernetes, aren’t natively supported on BSD.
Regardless, nobody cares about dropping 486 support. NetBSD is a novelty OS at best, and FreeBSD, the most popular BSD out there, doesn’t run on 486 since 2024. Nice attempt at trolling tho.
I just don’t want my hard disk wiped when I decide to try a piece of software.
You aren't running any relatively recent software on a 486, period. Even if you did and it turned out to be a virus, the chances of it hitting a bug in the kernel are extremely low.
I know how it works. My point is that, if emulated software, be under a hypervisor or an ABI compatibility layer, is considered “supported”, then we could say that Windows applications are supported in Linux, but that’s not entirely true.
More importantly, if I want to run Linux software, I would rather run it on Linux, e.g. Docker and Kubernetes.
Making code easier to write exacerbates our existing issues with review bandwidth.
Man, so much this. LLM written code is, most of the time, both excessively verbose, and overly complicated.
Also, I’ve found myself asking more about “why” than “how” in my reviews. Why is this loop here, why is this one liner method used only once, why do these five tests do the same thing. I’ve reached a point where I feel like I'm gaslighting myself into thinking that I'm constantly missing something, because nothing makes sense from an engineering perspective anymore.
Sorry, me and most people haven’t ever heard of your SaaS platform.
https://counterpointresearch.com/en/insights/global-smartphone-os-market-share
Then by any means, use Windows.
Never made that point. What I said is that NetBSD is a niche OS for hobbyists, and that if I wanted to run Linux software, instead of relying on emulation, I would rather just use Linux.
Did I hit a nerve here?
Anyway, funny that you would want to make that point when you yourself use NetBSD. You and the other five people running it on a desktop computer must be having a lot of fun I suppose.