Why don't more people use Linux? - DHH
Why don't more people use Linux? - DHH
A couple of weeks ago, I saw a tweet asking: "If Linux is so good, why aren't more people using it?" And it's a fair question! It intuitively rings true until you give it a moment's consideration. Linux is even free, so what's stopping mass adoption, if it's actually better? My response: “If exercis...
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ndlug.org/post/1064425
And Linux isn't minimal effort. It's an operating system that demands more of you than does the commercial offerings from Microsoft and Apple. Thus, it serves as a dojo for understanding computers better. With a sensei who keeps demanding you figure problems out on your own in order to learn and level up.
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That's why I'd love to see more developers take another look at Linux. Such that they may develop better proficiency in the basic katas of the internet. Such that they aren't scared to connect a computer to the internet without the cover of a cloud.
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Linux is second nature to us IT people, so it's easy to forget that the average person probably only knows basic shell scripting and how to build programs from git repos.
And vim, of course
of course
They don't even know that.
In case you missed it, it's an xkcd reference