• KevonLooney@lemm.ee
        473·
        3 months ago

        Uh, Android is the alternative to Apple’s iOS. Android is much more customizable.

            • MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca
              16·
              3 months ago

              Think Different™ (Because we deprecated the service you liked and depended on because an internal team was jockeying for a higher position and rewrote what you loved but worse, so actually you are thinking different every year!)

      • sunbeam60@lemmy.one
        18·
        3 months ago

        Azure don’t give a shit what it runs. Windows is on its own these days; if they succeed, good for them, but honestly I think the days of Microsoft just pretending to give a shit about Linux are long gone; it’s an important OS to them too.

        I’ve worked for Microsoft for 12 years, still have lots of friends there so I get some of the vibe from that.

      • bizarroland@fedia.io
        14·
        3 months ago

        If you don’t like what they are doing with Linux, because it is free and open source, participate in people that are using it in ways that you do like that they do it, or do it yourself.

        There is nothing stopping you

        • themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works
          91·
          3 months ago

          While Microsoft and Google merely pretend to like open source but transparently hate it, it is (was) not quite as obvious that red hat wanted to capture the enterprise Linux market wholesale. What red hat has done is terrible for the ecosystem, much more so than Microsoft just throwing out worthless tokens of appreciation.

          • LeFantome@programming.dev
            82·
            3 months ago

            You people are hilarious. Red Hat provides more GPL code than any company I can think of. Half of what people call GNU has Red Hat as the largest contributor.

            Feels before reals.

  • pelya@lemmy.world
    2191·
    3 months ago

    Just look at those nested parentheses. A true sign of (pedantic) greatness, when a person needs to clarify something in their earlier clarification.

    • Lucy :3@feddit.org
      1012·
      3 months ago

      I love it™ (The nested parentheses are one of the greatest tools known to mankind (And to all other creatures))

      • ulterno@lemmy.kde.socialEnglish
        19·
        3 months ago

        I have been stopping myself from using those and instead restructure my sentence. But if people like it, guess I can start keeping it.

        I do find it more useful, however, to have a kind of a reference to the thing written at the end instead [1], but markdown doesn’t seem to have anything for that, and using the syntax for Markdown references, is only useful for hyperlinks, or if the reader is willing to read the hover text 2.

        [1]: Like This. I would love it if the markdown viewer would link the above [1] to this line. Maybe with a scrolldown effect.

          • ulterno@lemmy.kde.socialEnglish
            4·
            3 months ago

            And automatically numbered too! Nice.

            Though for me, instead of a scrolldown effect, it reloads the page on clicking the link. Trying a second time, it does the scrolldown properly. Weird
            But that’s just an implementation detail and as long as this is standard, I’ll just start using it.

            Thanks

          • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
            4·
            3 months ago

            Well ain’t that some shit. It would make my comments more readable to a degree[1]. I also like how they have return links for when you have some monster text wall that nobody would ever read in the first place on this platform.

            1. not that I’d ever use it ↩︎

      • sramder@lemmy.worldEnglish
        171·
        3 months ago

        I had a teacher that screamed at me for “taking the lords name in vain…” They’re definitely wrong from time-to-time ;-)

    • Farid@startrek.website
      161·
      3 months ago

      Some of those parens could’ve been replaced with commas and retain their meaning (that’s what I do to avoid nesting, so that it doesn’t get confusing).

        • Farid@startrek.website
          3·
          3 months ago

          Not as good as my other primary languages, I have to admit. Finnish has too many consonants for my taste.

        • Farid@startrek.website
          4·
          3 months ago

          I’ve never seen that being used, but it seems it’s a thing in English. What if you wanna best deeper? Do you go {}? Then <>? «»?

          • VindictiveJudge@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            3 months ago

            Not really an English thing so much as a math thing that makes too much sense to not use elsewhere. For instance, in math you might have x[3 - 7{3y + (a * b)}]. I haven’t actually seen them go deeper than three sets, though, so I’m not sure what would be next.

            • ElTacoEsMiPastor@lemmy.ml
              3·
              3 months ago

              at that point I start recycling them, and go back to parenthesis.

              so when bp = 300x - 3, this:

              4( 4[ 4{ 15bp + 10 } - 375 ] - 2250 ) - 15000

              would turn to

              4( 4[ 4{ 15( 300x - 3) + 10 } - 375 ] - 2250 ) - 15000

              perhaps not the best, but I rather stick to conventional symbols rather than using… idk, question marks? that’d be funny as hell, though

              just picture it:

              4© 4« 4¿ 15bp + 10 ? - 375 » - 2250 🄯 - 15000

    • Aceticon@lemmy.world
      10·
      3 months ago

      The amount of effort I do to try and avoid using double parentesis is trully herculean.

      I think that stuff is the product of a completionist/perfectionist mindset - as one is writting, important details/context related to the main train of thought pop-up in one’s mind and as one is writting those, important details/context related to the other details/context pop-up in one’s mind (and the tendency is to keep going down the rabbit hole of details/context on details/context).

      You get this very noticeably with people who during a conversation go out on a tangent and often even end up losing the train of thought of the main conversation (a tendecy I definitelly have) since one doesn’t get a chance to go back and re-read, reorganise and correct during a spoken conversation.

      Personally I don’t think it’s an actual quality (sorry to all upvoters) as it indicates a disorganised mind. It is however the kind of thing one overcomes with experience and I bet Mr Torvalds himself is mostly beyond it by now.

      • MrShankles@reddthat.com
        1·
        3 months ago

        perfectionist mindset - as one is writing,

        I think an “M-Dash (perfectionist mindest— as one is writing,)” would be more appropriate than an “N-Dash” in your statement. No ‘nested’ parentheses needed (unless you’re looking to add non-essential (though insightful) info to your sentence); but the type of… “PAUSE” makes all the difference

  • netvor@lemmy.world
    1801·
    3 months ago

    Funny how he made it basically for his desktop computer.

    33 years later, and Linux is dominating in every part of the OS world except … the desktop.

    (I’m paraphrasing his quote – he said something like this years ago, can’t find it, though.)

    (Edit: to be more fair with quotes, it might be the case that I “hallucinated” the quote. he might not have said that, or he might have just said part of it and other part would be someone else’s comment. This cio.com article is probably a better source on his position )

    • psycho_driver@lemmy.world
      422·
      3 months ago

      I would argue that it does dominate the desktop now as well, just not by usage numbers.

      If I was told I had to use a windows desktop these days at home I think I’d start investing in a very large book collection.

      • COASTER1921@lemmy.ml
        91·
        3 months ago

        Without a distro to rally behind I’m personally somewhat skeptical. Ubuntu was the best shot we had but since switching everything over to SNAPs it’s on the slow side. With the number of Windows ads and early end of support for Windows 10 there’s a real opportunity for desktop Linux, but until there’s a well supported distro that genuinely doesn’t require using the terminal I can’t see there being mass adoption.

        • sin_free_for_00_days
          13·
          3 months ago

          My grandmother ran Linux for a couple decades until her death at 101 years old. My 80+ year old mom has been running Linux for at least 2 decades. Yes, I’m tech support, but I don’t really have to do anything. It just works.

          • SOB_Van_Owen@lemm.ee
            5·
            3 months ago

            And I’m cracking up at the scammers phoning up my 85 year old father telling him his Windows has been compromised on his Linux desktop.

        • psycho_driver@lemmy.world
          7·
          3 months ago

          Any distro that ships KDE/Plasma as its default desktop should do the trick. I’m not personally using it right now but I hear OpenSUSE Tumbleweed is kicking a lot of rear end lately.

        • Rinox@feddit.it
          7·
          3 months ago

          It’s not about the distro. Most distros out right now are pretty good. What you need is hardware that lots of people want to buy with Linux installed on it as the default choice. Normal people don’t want to install any OS, be it Linux, Windows, MacOS or BSD. Whatever comes by default, it’s good.

          I’m pretty sure that right now the most popular Linux distros are ChromeOS and SteamOS. I wonder why

      • netvor@lemmy.world
        4·
        3 months ago

        Well, I was thinking of a quote that was much more similar to what I wrote (and it’s not in the video you linked).

        I had such a trouble finding it that I’m starting to feel like it might be one of those “quotes” where the credited author never really said that, but I haven’t completely given up :D

        Here’s one closer to what I paraphrased (but not quite it)–quoting an article from cio.com

        While Linux pretty much dominates almost every walk of our lives, even on the consumer devices like smartphones and smart TVs, it has not had the same success on the desktop. What does Torvalds think about it? Is Linux a failure on the desktop? Not really. “The desktop hasn’t really taken over the world like Linux has in many other areas, but just looking at my own use, my desktop looks so much better than I ever could have imagined. Despite the fact that I’m known for sometimes not being very polite to some of the desktop UI people, because I want to get my work done. Pretty is not my primary thing. I actually am very happy with the Linux desktop, and I started the project for my own needs, and my needs are very much fulfilled. That’s why, to me, it’s not a failure. I would obviously love for Linux to take over that world too, but it turns out it’s a really hard area to enter. I’m still working on it. It’s been 25 years. I can do this for another 25. I’ll wear them down.”

  • vu2tum@lemmy.radio
    137·
    3 months ago

    “Just a hobby, won’t be big” - he really didn’t think it will be one of the most sought after projects.

  • neidu2@feddit.nl
    112·
    3 months ago

    I for one really appreciate the effort of supporting non-AT drives despite the initial skepticism.

  • EarthShipTechIntern@lemm.ee
    100·
    3 months ago

    …probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks,as that’s all I have. :-(.

    Cuteness.

    As in hilarity.

  • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
    771·
    3 months ago

    (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu)

    Aged like fine milk. Looking at you, GNU Hurd.

    • mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org
      6·
      3 months ago

      GNU Hurd didn’t take a good path of development following MACH design. But I still think GNU Hurd is the kernel of the future. Probably the Next generation Hurd. Just because GNU MACH and Hurd present very convoluted designs.

      A kernel that performs most of their activities in user space and that it is truly modular looks very promising for the kind of systems we have nowadays and in the future.

      Someone has to make the change, or we will stagnate in cumbersome and up featured systems.

  • davel [he/him]@lemmy.mlEnglish
    56·
    3 months ago

    There’s no guessing what will catch the world by storm. At a party once, Bram Cohen tried to get me interested in his ideas for a a peer-to-peer protocol, and I thought nothing of it.

    • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
      17·
      3 months ago

      My cousin’s buddies asked him to build the website for their new ride hailing app but he didn’t feel like doing some rinky dink thing, apparently Travis and them took it in stride though.

    • orangeboats@lemmy.world
      5·
      3 months ago

      People back then just grossly underestimated how big computing was going to be.

      The human brain is not built to predict exponential growths!

  • PseudoSpock@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    26·
    3 months ago

    That post changed my life, gave me a great hobby, which became a career, and still puts food on the table for me and my family to this day. Thank you, Linus.