• Aniki 🌱🌿@discuss.tchncs.de
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    10 days ago

    I have a feeling there will be a critical threshold crossed that will explode Linux’s popularity and install numbers and I think we’re getting close to that point now.

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      8 days ago

      Next year will likely explode.

      There are those of us who think windows 10 is passable, have used it for many years, and were never planning on switching to Linux because we’re normies.

      Windows 11 changes that, and when security updates for Win10 end in 2025, I’m switching to Linux.

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          10 days ago

          Long time “old-school” kernel maintainers don’t know Rust and don’t want to learn Rust (completely fair and reasonable). But some of them don’t want to work with the Rust guys for lots’o’technical reasons.

          It’s by far not an easy situation technically. Like this is a huge challenge.

          But some of those old-school C guys are being vocal about their dislike of Rust in the kernel and gatekeeping the process. This came to a head at a recent conference (Linux Plumbers Conference?) and now one of the Rust maintainers has quit.

          The big technical challenge is being confounded by professional opinions.