On 4/5/24 11:35 AM, John Hasler wrote:
Desktop Linux is widely used in physics and mathematics. NASA uses Linux extensively, including on Mars and on the ISS. SpaceX uses Linux on their rockets and spacecraft. Over 90% of the top 1 million Web servers run Linux, including Yahoo, X, and Ebay. Almost all supercomputers use Linux. Linux has a large and growing share of the automotive market. Your router almost certainly runs Linux.
Not to mention people like me, who refuse to use WinDoze, in order to avoid paying "The Bill" (hasn't Gates gotten rich enough already, selling ill-behaved bloatware and deliberately driving competitors out of business?), and who have become increasingly disgusted with Apple's "we know what you want better than you do" attitude, and with the fact that their upgrade treadmill is getting to be almost as bad as Microsloth's (I'd use a stronger dysphemism, involving a very rude Yiddish word, but this is presumably a family list-server).
And of course, every Chromebook in the world has a variant of Linux at its core (just as every Mac that runs a Mac OS later than 9 uses a variant of BSD), and a *good* Chromebook will run Linux apps.
-- JHHL