• AItoothbrush@lemmy.zip
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    7 hours ago

    Bro moving from hungary where tech literacy is low compared to the rest of europe but when people are tech literate they actually know something to sweden where people are absolute tech bros is so painful. I had quite a few friends in hungary who used linux daily, a majority of them not even that deep into it, while here most people dont even know it exists. Every time i open my laptop someone has to fucking point out that “lol you use linux are you a hacker” which gets fucking annoying after a while.

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    7 hours ago

    It makes sense. That’s where the Indian YouTube explainer guys live.

    Also, shame for us, although it matches the general run-by-old-people oligopoly vibe we have going in Canada.

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      11 hours ago

      Meh, I’ve worked in IT infrastructure for science labs and research facilities- researchers are amazingly competent in their fields, and almost nothing else. I doubt many of them run Linux.

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      15 hours ago

      Researchers probably run windows or Mac, but I’d guess the admins who maintain their infrastructure probably run Linux for themselves and on the infrastructure. And probably various tools that control things like core samplers and shit.

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    15 hours ago

    Why is China and Japan so low? Is that just bad reporting? Is it a language / character support issue?

    I’d think China would want their own government run distro they can control.

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      14 hours ago

      China could potentially be explained by them not giving a fuck about software piracy – at least in the 90s and early 2000s – so money was never a motivation to move to Linux.

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    19 hours ago

    Is this just desktops?

    Informally, walking through anybody’s house, I can find dozens of linux devices. They’re just white label. Your digital thermostat? Linux. Washing machine? Linux. Wi-Fi access point? Linux. ISP issued CPE? Linux. Switch? Linux

    Audio mixing board? Linux …

    Intel management engine… minux, so basically Linux.

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      25 minutes ago

      not to mention…Every 5G iPhone has modem firmware running linux.

      and of course every Android phone.

      But yes anything else with an IP address that’s not a Windows/Mac/BSD computer… likely Linux.

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      9 hours ago

      A lot of those are running either minix, BSD, or some other ultralightweight OS. and those are definitely not Linux. Not even close.

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        Minux has not been updated in 10 years. It should not be used on anything connected to the internet.

        Most “ultralight stripped down OS” will be built from linux these days. Usually Tiny Core Linux or Alpine.

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    19 hours ago

    Ukraine, whaaat?? Have the constant cyber attacks pushed them towards more secure options?