Report: Linux was on 6.34 percent of computers last month if you count ChromeOS.
  • onlinepersona@programming.dev
    614·
    4 days ago

    Because everybody knows who it’s made by (one of the biggest corps who hates freedom). Just because one brick of a building is open source doesn’t mean the entire building is great.

    Might as well promote a Chinese Linux distro and ignore the possible implications of its source.

    Anti Commercial-AI license

      • undefined
        2·
        2 days ago

        I think people like to say it isn’t simply because they don’t agree with Apple.

        It’s UNIX but the way it’s set up both is and isn’t aligned with UNIX conventions, and it’s definitely off base with Linux despite the ease with which Linux utilities can be ported.

        • c10l@lemmy.world
          3·
          2 days ago

          Linux is quite an oddball in the UNIX world, tbh. It’s the most popular these days, and the one I’m most familiar with, but most Linux OSs are a lot more GNU than they are UNIX.

    • c10l@lemmy.world
      8·
      4 days ago

      UNIX != open source.

      In fact, most flavours have historically been commercial and proprietary.

        • c10l@lemmy.world
          71·
          4 days ago

          You responded to “macOS is UNIX” with “it’s not open source”. I’m just illustrating how these 2 things are not correlated.

          In any case, macOS is based on OpenBSD. Even the original BSD, which OpenBSD is based on, was not initially open source.

          Everything you said was a straw man.