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It would probably be more if there weren't so many Linux gatekeepers that tell people to "go back to Windows/Apple" when they ask a questions.

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  • Symbian: The forgotten FOSS phone OS

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    /me cries in Maemo :`-(
  • I still use windows because of Visual Studio.

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    People who use windows or Mac for anything but development do so for the same reasons as you, they are locked into some features. For example, at home I need a local music library manager with local sync to my phone music app and smart playlists. Mac is still the only platform with this. At work I need MS exchange integration and all the features of native office. Even the Mac version isn't good enough for my workflow. My only hope would be to turn to emulators or something like that, but at that point I'm not really running Linux anyway. I'm just running something else in a container inside Linux.
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    Problem is that once Delta gets away with it, they'll all start doing it.
  • Wow, that's excluding Chrome OS, which has 2.71% on it's own.

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    Linux as an OS is generally meant as Desktop Linux, and it most definitely is in this context that is about desktop marketshare, Desktop Linux is mostly following freedesktop guidelines, which has traditionally helped standards on Linux a lot to streamline developments. So for instance XFCE/Gnome/KDE desktop apps can be run in all the different desktop environments. For instance also standardizing things like how tray icons work. Freedesktop is part of X.Org Foundation, and Chrome OS does not use X.org or Free Desktop standards at all. So while Chrome OS is based on the Linux kernel, it is NOT a Linux OS in the original sense, a term that became popular decades before Chrome OS or Android became a thing. If you include Chrome OS you might as well include Android too. As it can run on for instance Raspberry Pi and other mini systems, and could be used as a desktop system. Chrome OS is a Linux kernel based OS, and not much more than that. It's somewhat confusing in some situations that Linux as a desktop OS doesn't have a unique name, but it wasn't a problem originally, as what some prefer to call GNU/Linux was made 100% for desktop use originally. The Linux kernel is way way more widespread and successful than what we usually term Desktop Linux or GNU/Linux.
  • Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse

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    MS keeps making Windows worse but that is not a problem because Linux is great on PCs. The reason is that PC is made out of standardized plug&play components that you can make generic OS image for. There is no such thing in smartphone world. Each chipset is it's own Linux fork that gets only most crucial bug fixes while in warranty. Same is true for ARM SBCs where I believe the only board that supports generic image are new RPis.
  • Thank you Pewdiepie!!

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    What's up with your username homie?
  • Proton is a big deal for the change.

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    OK, it just has utterly degenerate webpage design. I thought those were voluntary additions by users telling what they use, not common format. Inconvenient.