2mo ago

I'm grateful for being able to have a choice like Linux or even BSD family instead having only two proprietary choices: Windows or MacOS.

That's all. I can't imagine how the world and also myself would look like without them.

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How ironic that much of Microsoft and all MacOS depends on Linux/Unix.
I mean ironic for those companies. Irony is not directed at OP.
- FOSS also depends on them, many FOSS contributors are employed by proprietary companies.
- Linux would be nothing without Unix.
linux really is amazing at this point and I think it can take over the desktop once people realize. There are distros that are install and go without much of a learning curve at all and wine allows for running of windows programs.
PREACH!!
There must be foss alternatives to every proprietary software. Big thanks to GNU and Linus Torvalds that joined their forces and created GNU/Linux!
- macOS is not really BSD. It uses a Mach-like kernel with some of FreeBSD and OpenBSD in its userland. However, given that Linux and some versions of Windows also use BSD code in their network stacks, it should be obvious that “it uses BSD code” is not the same thing as “it is BSD”.
It would look the same desktop wise lmao, most people don’t use them
- Doubtful. Without Linux running the majority of the internet, I doubt the desktop scene would look the same as it does today.
  
  That’s why I said desktop not server

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