• Trainguyrom@reddthat.com
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    1 year ago

    Honestly whatever Linux Distro takes over will almost certainly be an Android or ChormeOS style bastardization where you can certainly see the lineage but it’s so locked down and so far removed from the userland and tooling we expect that the whole point of “year of the Linux desktop” is lost

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      1 year ago

      Yes and no. MacOS is basically the year of the Unix desktop for a while now and it’s still powerful and user friendly. Just fire up a terminal and it’s Unix. The benefit they have is hardware control so stuff just works and no driver hardware issues etc…

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        1 year ago

        I agree. Linux is great when one has the time but not the money.

        However for a system that just works - MacOS is one of the best bsd distros of all time esp on arm.

        Sadly MacOS also comes with the downfalls of a closed and proprietary ecosystem.