[GLLUG] GLLUG still alive?

[John Hearns]

'We' ? I work in supercomputing. Every significant supercomputer runs Linux.

On Sun, Aug 18, 2024, 7:06 PM Matthew Smith via GLLUG <
gllug at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:

> On 13 Aug 2024, at 16:36, Martin A. Brooks via GLLUG <
> gllug at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
> >
> > On 2024-08-13 15:50, Polarian via GLLUG wrote:
> >> I have been looking through the archives and have seen that there has
> >> been only a few posts to the list in the past year.
> >
> > Most LUGs are dying, if not already dead.  Why?  Very simple: we won.
> >
> > Linux went from a hobbyist OS used by geeks and weirdos to global
> ubiquity. The geeks and weirdos are still the same, though.
>
> 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.
>
> Matt
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