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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).

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If you do these 5 things... You should NOT use Linux (youtu.be)

submitted 10 months ago by original_reader@lemm.ee to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Do you agree? If not, what's your counter arguments?

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[–] kevin@mander.xyz 2 points 10 months ago

That's fair. Another example of what you describe that I'm more familiar with is Epic (medical records software). My hypothesis is that the differences that matter are:

Cost of switching is higher and/or
The people making the decision (business manager, hospital admin) are farther from the actual users of the software.

Could be lots of other reasons too, but these are the ones that jump out at me.