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For ages now, every annual report on desktop operating system market share has had the same top two contenders: Microsoft's Windows in a commanding lead at number one and Apple's macOS in distant second place. So, it's *not* the Year of Linux?
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I thought Chrome OS was just another Linux distro with google spyware thrown in for good measure...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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True, but it's certainly not something most people really think of as a Linux distro (mostly due to that spyware). Debian, I think?
TTFN - Kent
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So that means the base claim should be that *Linux* is the 2nd most installed desktop os, and since Windows 10 has WSL, that technically means that Linus is *the* most installed desktop OS...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Most windows installs don't have WSL installed; currently it's only doable via power shell. Meaning that your average luser can't accidentally install it futzing around in settings. As a multi-gig install I don't see it becoming a standard part anytime soon. 
And because Chromebooks version of linux is locked down and only able to run Chrome and Android apps; not any of the normal linux software you'd get via apt/etc IMO it's really not much closer to a real linux desktop than your phone is if you plug a keyboard, mouse, and external monitor into its USB port via a hub.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: And because Chromebooks version of linux is locked down and only able to run Chrome and Android apps; not any of the normal linux software you'd get via apt/etc
All over the internet: Starting with version 69, Chrome OS users can use Linux applications. This is a game changer for Chrome OS, as it opens a massive catalog of available software.
That was 2 or 3 years ago...
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Kent Sharkey wrote: So, it's *not* the Year of Linux?
No. That was last year. We are done with that now.
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That reminds me a bit when the Liverpool supporters (before Klopp) used to say "This year is our year..."
Who the f*** is General Failure, and why is he reading my harddisk?
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How long, I wonder, before graphics chipset vendors stop bothering with Linux drivers for their chipsets.
Is such a small market share worth pursuing? Or is it worth it solely for the Linux-using opinion-former mindshare?
Linux is of course winning in the server marketplace but servers don't need graphics chipsets, other than in very basic terms. Then again, perhaps Linux driver development for GPUs/APUs used for parallel processing acceleration in servers makes ancillary development of Linux drivers for graphics-focussed chipsets relatively low cost. The Linux server saves the few remaining Linux desktop users, perhaps. 
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We explore how to make Blazor web apps run on Desktop. "Top coat, top hat, and I don't worry 'cause my wallet's fat"
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Linux on Windows, Android on Windows, Webs on Desktop...
And they they wonder about security holes and problems with the updates... if they just let everything for what it was designed... 
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Windows 10 version 21H1 is official, and it's coming this spring. I guess they learned their mistake with Windows 10 2004?
Technically a repost, but this is via the official announcement
Oh, and this: Quote: Microsoft is also currently working on a much larger update for Windows 10, codenamed Sun Valley, that will introduce a rejuvenated UI design, new features, and updated in-box apps.
Maybe we'll get some new icons! W000t!
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Quote: Microsoft announces Windows 10 version 21H1 with security and quality improvements
Yeah, right...
Kent Sharkey wrote: Microsoft is also currently working on a much larger update for Windows 10, codenamed Sun Valley
I think they have a spy in the site... they must have come to the idea of that codename because of us calling them "sunshines" 
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Drinking a cup of coffee a day could alter the volume of gray matter in your brain, according to a new study in the journal Cerebral Cortex. How much do I need to drink to get superpowers?
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I know a couple ones that would be safe... there is nothing to alter 
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We are excited to announce a brand-new extension for building and debugging Makefile projects in Visual Studio Code: Makefile Tools (preview)! We heard you like IDEs, so we'll make this text editor into one
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Why do I have the impression that Visual Studio Code will soon enough start to have real problems?
M.D.V.
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Then they can create a new lightweight editor and do the whole cycle one more time.
TTFN - Kent
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Yup, how many more features will it get before it becomes Visual Studio.
Haaaaang on.... Visual Studio is old and bloated. Well, it's old. And old == bad in many younglings' views. So perhaps this is an implicit, perhaps even unwitting, plan to replace Visual Studio!
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Microsoft announced today that the SolarWinds hackers could gain access to source code for a limited amount of components used by Azure, Intune, and Exchange. Our thoughts go out to the hackers during this troubling time as they attempt to recover
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The crowdsourced-support program for independent FOSS devs opens doors to corporate sponsorship. git request-pull cash
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A British developer has lost his fight to claim ownership over software he wrote while working for digital forensics firm MD5. Your work is your work, until someone can make money with it
caveat developer
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Quote: The software is used mostly by police forces, and allows investigators to extract files from a seized hard drive and view them in a virtual machine, thereby avoiding altering any evidence on the drive.
This is one of those scenarios where I really have to question the ethics of what we do in the software/IT industry. Shouldn't someone tell the police they can just mount the hard drive as read only? Actually shouldn't they have IT specialized forensics investigators who know that?
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Quote: Although the judge noted that none of the contracts had been put together by lawyers, leaving dangerous ambiguities that ultimately led to the lawsuit,
And here we see the heart of the problem. Yes [Insert Lawyer Jokes Here]; but when you need a lawyer you really need a lawyer.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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"While working for" automatically forfeits rights in the EU. Must be a Brexit thing.
If you "work for" here, you don't own it. The one that gave you the funds to do so does.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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