<div dir="auto">'We' ? I work in supercomputing. Every significant supercomputer runs Linux.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Aug 18, 2024, 7:06 PM Matthew Smith via GLLUG <<a href="mailto:gllug@mailman.lug.org.uk">gllug@mailman.lug.org.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 13 Aug 2024, at 16:36, Martin A. Brooks via GLLUG <<a href="mailto:gllug@mailman.lug.org.uk" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">gllug@mailman.lug.org.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On 2024-08-13 15:50, Polarian via GLLUG wrote:<br>
>> I have been looking through the archives and have seen that there has<br>
>> been only a few posts to the list in the past year.<br>
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> Most LUGs are dying, if not already dead. Why? Very simple: we won.<br>
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> Linux went from a hobbyist OS used by geeks and weirdos to global ubiquity. The geeks and weirdos are still the same, though.<br>
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We didn’t win in the sense we were hoping to though, did we? Linux won on mobile (Android), but the “great hope” for open-source mobile (Meego) flopped after one high-profile device that wasn’t even released in the UK. Windows’s market share has dipped considerably, but not in favour of open-source desktops but of even more restrictive tablets. The Mac has been quite successful using a Unix-based OS with some of the same technologies as Linux, but it’s got even more locked-down over the years.<br>
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Matt<br>
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