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Is Linux As Good As We Think It Is?
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).
Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.
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Or the purposeful incompatibility between Android/iOS and others.
Like how Google pulled miracast from Android to push Chromecast as the standard. Now I can't stream to an Amazon FireStick even though it's also fucking Android at its core.
A lot of these private companies purposefully put in "pain points" to get you to spend more money in their ecosystems.
The "pain points" in Linux are "you have to learn something."
This too is an excellent take. "Artificial pain points" for capitalism, or "learn some shit" for Linux. Love it.
Aka Walled Gardens.
Barbed wire gardens. Painful to get in, painful to get out.