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[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 0 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Let me get this straight. When you think of the "linux experience", you think of refridgerators, air fryers, and vacumes. Your words. That's your mental image of Linux.

While at the same time discrediting the desktop experience as "a tiny specific section of computer hardware".

Now personally, I think Android SHOULD be counted as Linux. I've even asked why there isn't a Linux distro that's just Android for the PC. However, whenever I ask that question, instead of anyone answering legitimately, I get told that's not what Linux is.

And the sad thing is, I think that would BLOSSOM the Linux userbase on PC. The power supply on my PC died a month ago, and before I found a bandaid solution, I was using my phone in dex mode for two weeks. It was a flawed but decent experience. The type of experience that would be a lot better if it were more common. But it's not. People just don't use their phones as PC replacements like I did for 2 weeks.

So me reading your reply, it's obvious to me that everything you're saying is a strawman arguement. What's not obvious is if YOU realize how much of a strawmans arguement it is.

Seriously. You used air conditioners to justify numbers of Linux marketshare. Hang on. I gotta do some photo editing. Let me go grab the dehumidifier and run GIMP on it!

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 5 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

When i think of the (gnu+) linux experience i think of software that can be run on almost any hardware to fit whatever purpose that hardware needs.

Personal computers are a big part of modern life yes but statistically they are a very small portion of what is out there.

The context of my comment is about “how the future of technology may look like from the perspective of the person you replied to when they worked at Microsoft 25y ago. You decided to make this about desktop marketshare. That is the strawmen.

And to answer your latest strawmen. A dehumidifier is built to dehumidify, not to edit photos, just like your modem is built to arrange your acces to the internet and download gimp, not to edit photos. That modem is also running the linux kernel btw.