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[–] 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Too late to do this for PCs.

let me tell you about this little thing called windows 11.

I know for a fact that this is exactly where compute is going, just look at the aggressive moves that MS has been making over the last 15-25 years.

it starts with requiring an always on connection, and ends with hardware lockout like Mac has.

sure Linux will be an option... but for how much longer? all the old devs are retiring and the new ones....god help us. they want to rewrite it like any greenhorn, and they want to use...rust??!

I give it 10-15 years before hardware locks out Linux, and Linux is dying.

I'm a Linux user btw, so don't think I'm a MS or Mac fan.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Just to add on top of that I think Linux will be good as long as Torvalds is alive. After that who knows what would happen. They might add binaries to mainstream kernel that lock you out and who can stop them ? We are lucky we live in times where we have a choice.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    They might add binaries to mainstream kernel that lock you out and who can stop them ?

    Who are "they"?

    It seams you don't know how Linux kernel is maintained. Linus is simply releasing the most commonly used versions of it. Nothing stops you from choosing a different one. If someone takes over the main kernel and starts doing weird things distros will simply package another kernel by default.

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