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On this day in 1991, Linus Torvalds announced he was working on what would become Linux
(www.xda-developers.com)
And he immediately got flamed for it (/s)
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And now hardly anyone uses microkernels, hilariously.
The husband of a woman I worked with was going abroad to study with Tannenbaum. I said, "That's the guy who hated Linux!" She had no idea what I was talking about, but it was good for a chuckle for me.
So it isn't really linux's birthday....more like the anniversary of the pregnancy announcement
"hey we've been raw dogging for a while"
The better Linus.
… arguably. Torvalds is somewhat famous for being kind of a dick to people, particularly if he thinks their code is bad. He’s getting better.
The choice of pictures accompanying this article is somewhat disturbing. First is a windows desktop with a penguin on top, the second is a gnome app launcher exclusively showing android apps.
The android app part is because it's xda-developers which is an android focused website.
And since 1992 people have been claiming every year that this is the year of Linux on the desktop.
It was the year for me. Windows is bad enough and Linux is good enough to make the switch. People are getting tired of the big tech companies with privacy concerns and anti consumer practices - pretty much the reason most of us are on here on lemmy now.
This year is the year. All you have to do is switch. With products like Ubuntu, there's no reason not to. It. Just. Works.
All you have to do is switch. With products like Ubuntu, there’s no reason not to. It. Just. Works.
People who say that severely underestimate the time, effort, and expertise they've accumulated that makes it easy for themselves, but hard for others.
I tried to switch once before COVID. It was horrible. Oh, I now need to learn about file systems and NTFS and ext3/4(?) - i guess i'll try Linux on a separate, old hard drive. Ok, something didn't work, I now have to figure out what driver wasn't supported and what I need to download. Great, people on forums are helpful but they're asking me a bunch of gibberish. Now I gotta figure out this command line thing. Oh cool some people built GUIs for certain stuff so i don't need to play with the command line, but then the GUI doesn't work occasionally and now I have to figure out if it's the GUI that broke or something else. And then at some point I got stuck because of file permissions.
Unsurprisingly, I'm back on Windows. It sucks, but at least it really just works.
For majority of people, an OS isn't something they want to think about, nor something they know a lot about. For example, I'm not a gearhead, so when I buy a car, I just want to drive it off the lot on Day 1 - sure not everything is perfect the way I want it, but i don't need to do anything if I don't want to. I don't want to buy a shell of a car and have to go to 5 different shops to choose a tire, install my own seats, get used to the stick shift being on the roof of the car instead of beside me, and have it break down on me all the time because "you aren't using it right".
Valve has done amazing work with Steam Play. Seeing how well the steam deck plays games convinced me not to put windows on my new rig.
I don’t agree, however, that it just works. My graphics card needed a mess driver outside of the default repos for Ubuntu lts, and my gpu has been out for almost a year.
I also have one high dpi monitor and one standard-ish dpi monitor, and scaling them independently, moving windows back and forth, and going into and out of full screen games all produce undesired behavior. It’s annoying enough that I now just use one monitor.
And I'll just sit there and watch my OS since I'll have no software to run. No thanks.
Else I'd just sit there and watch my OS show me ads and it'd tell me how I should switch to Edge and use Bing. No thanks. /s
Maybe stop believing all the Linux propaganda you read on here.
I'm usually not on this community and just wanted to make a sarcastic play on your words.
E.g. if your in computer science it's almost a requirement to be comfortable around Linux and it's up to anyone if they want to use it bare metal or in a VM on Windows. So I agree that my comment was wrong but that also applies to yours. Anyones OS choice depends on the application you want to run. That's why I definitely won't recommend anyone using Adobe and other creative software to use Linux.
Now there's lih-nux or lie-nux I don't know how you say it Or how you install it, or use it, or play it Or where you download it, or what programs run But lih-nux, or lie-nux, don't look like much fun
However you say it, it's getting great press Though how it survives is anyone's guess If you ask me, it's a great big mess For elitist, nerdy shmucks
"It's free!" they say, if you can get it to run The Geeks say, "Hey, that's half the fun!" Yeah, but I got a girlfriend, and things to get done The Linux OS SUCKS (I'm sorry to say it, but it does.)
It. Just. Works.
No. It. Doesn't
You all keep saying it works but it still doesn't work with a whole load of software even with Wine.
If all you do is internet browsing then Linux is fine, but if you need specific software it can be a pain.
it still doesn't work with a whole load of software even with Wine.
I don't think being able to run programs designed and compiled for windows is a requirement to be considered a usable os. For example, you can not run safari on windows. Does this mean windows doesn't count as a usable os?
I think the definition of useable should be that software exists that can do the kind of things you want to do on your computer. In that sense, Linux is perfecty useable on the desktop, at least for people who have similar computing requirements to me.
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Just last month I came across a cd I burned with Mandrake Linux that I had downloaded - 26 years ago!
I should try and install that on a virtual PC and see how it feels/looks hahaha
I recently did that with a Debian 3 (r8 I think) disc, that whole experience was a blast from the past!
And there was much rejoicing!
"A year passed: winter changed into spring, spring changed into summer, summer changed back into winter, and winter gave spring and summer a miss and went straight on into autumn... until one day..."
A great day in history.
Probably won't amount to anything
Feels like I should buy something small for my "command center".
Wasn't Linus an actual asshole back in the day. The same as Steve Jobs and even Bill Gates. Seems to be a running trend with OS makers from the early 90's.
https://itsfoss.com/torvalds-takes-a-break-from-linux/
Not that it is relevant. It's cool we have Linux. Glad we can celebrate a system that just isn't quite there yet.
EDIT: Lemmy is a cesspool. You guys need help.
The same as Steve Jobs and even Bill Gates.
In my opinion, not the same as these guys. Jobs and Gates were assholes because they got fuck you money and power, so they were assholes for being assholes' sake. Linus was an asshole, but he usually had good reasons for acting like that, usually technical, common sense and no-nonsense driven. Sometimes I miss the time before he got therapy or whatever. It was amusing and cathartic to see him roasting some guys because he was right more often than not.
Glad we can celebrate a system that just isn’t quite there yet.
What are you talking about? I mean, if you mean Linux on the Desktop, sure, but nobody who uses Linux on the IT sector cares too much about that. Linux has won on the server arena for a long time already. E: And then there's also the mobile and embedded market. If you think about it, desktop is the only part in tech that Linux has yet to gain ground.
With Steam Deck it's gained ground there too. Sure. It's still not even close to Windows. But, progress is exciting anyways.
He created linux. He can be as much an asshole as he likes. Fuck your fee fees.
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Ahh, classical Torvalds' buttburning. So sad I don't see it anymore
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