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Linux has less than half of Linux’s desktop share (www.theregister.com)
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Not mine but sounds like a showerthought to me. TL;DR ChromeOS is the “wrong” version of Linux and has 4% while GNU/Linux has 3%

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[–] minh2134@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

But Linux is good at backward compatibility tho. Linus Torvalds leadership made sure that very few if at all any changes to the kernel will break existing userland. This means that if you have a program with their needed dependencies in the right version (which is easy with docker/flatpak/appimage) your programs will run flawlessly even if they are from the 90s.

[–] parrot-party@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Though Linux the kernel might be stable and considerate, Linux the ecosystem is not.

[–] Aatube@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I'm pretty sure that's just default userland and foreign packages still update frequently and kernel updates might've broken syscalls not used by default userland.