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c/linuxsuckssucks · by auzy1@lemmy.world · 54d

LinuxSucks forgets it has been year of Linux for years

The LinuxSucks community acknowledges that Linux is popular on:

  1. Embedded systems
  2. Super Computers
  3. And Internet servers

Android (which uses Linux) is the most popular mobile phone OS also utilises Linux. And the Meta Quest uses Linux too. Their reasoning is that its only popular because of free licencing. This doesn't change that it IS popular!

In another recent post, they acknowledge that the desktop market is declining, so, seems this shouldn't matter as much.

It has been year of Linux for a very long time, and the only market segments it has struggled to dominate is the desktop, tablet and gaming Console

Almost everyone relies on Linux on a daily basis. Lemmy itself likely relies on Linux for operation. If Linux does indeed "suck", the LinuxSucks community should instead be hosting on Windows/MacOS servers

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OR3X@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 54d (2 replies)

I had to block that dude. What kind of life do you have to lead where you dedicate so much time online to hating something for no clear reason? I mean, is he a fkn Microsoft exec or something? It makes no sense. Just abject negativity for the sake of it.

auzy1@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 53d

I used to sell Apple gear. You can tell MT is not a real dev (but often talking on behalf of them).

The Apple Dev team i met were absolutely normal people. And, if you speak to Microsoft dev's, they're absolutely normal people too (Microsoft has embraced Linux too)

However, Apple marketing / low levelTechs (at least in the country where I live), were the complete opposite. In fact, an Apple sales manager even told me off for testing OSX86 at all (and a week later, was boasting about how useful it was, without apologising as they had obviously been told by higher management to push it). And, they were fairly abusive against Linux in my experience

If MT works in IT at all, I suspect its for some sh** proprietary software package which is desktop only (and are low level), or as a low level tech. Maybe Apple. That's why they seem so threatened by linux..

The fact is though, they seem to have a lot of time to make memes..

kylie_kraft@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 53d
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GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 53d

To this day, I have no idea how much of that community is tongue-in-cheek satire by self-aware Linux users and how much of it is earnest Linux hate.

boaratio@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 53d

I totally thought this was going to be a Lunduke thing.

madthumbs@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 52d (1 reply)

Linux on web servers isn't a brag" It's the simplest computing task, and Linux was 30-45% power inefficient at it until recently. (well-documented -search it). It's free and admins are plenty compared to technically superior BSD.

Embedded systems: We're talking about taking a portion of the kernel, again nothing impressive.

Super Computers: Which again have nothing to do with desktop Linux.

Linux expects ECC memory, and that's barely ever used in consumer devices. Other operating systems have evolved to better deal with bit flips. -Linux has not.

auzy1@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 51d
  1. Your post is just year of the Linux. No desktop mention
  2. FreeBSD has issues with even basic things like Audio compatibility at the moment: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Tragic-FreeBSD-Audio-Support . For a guy who argues linux sucks at games, you sure seem okay with being unable to play them on FreeBSD lol
  3. Busy polling affects Low-latency, high-traffic Datacentres ONLY (not even VPS or shared servers). It works by using 100% CPU the entire time. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43749271 . Wall street I'm sure will be happy they can improve their latency by 1ns on trades (and I assume some caching servers).
  4. Linux does not expect ECC memory any more or less than any other OS on the desktop. That's mostly crap.
  5. Even my Mac Pro required Fully buffered ECC Ram to operate at all (same as Xserve's)... All workstation level systems generally do. Even Apple knows they need it.
  6. BtrFS and ZFS both have full checksums built into the OS (if you're referring to filesystems). Both are available in Linux. It isn't baked into NTFS directly, or AFS. Even with that, ECC memory is recommended anyway.
  7. There is nothing magical that can stop Bit flips (even a Mars rover was affected). Unless you build a 1m concrete wall around your computer to stop gamma rays.
  8. Super computers and servers absolutely matter, because they require proof of scalability.

Android Phones, Samsung TV's, Hisense Vidaa, synology, android TV's all use linux and non-ecc ram.

I'd love to know where this ECC claim comes from. More misinterpreted data I assume..