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   Stefano Marinelli (stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Nov-2025 10:09:45 JST Stefano Marinelli

   As expected, on some well known news sites my latest blog post also drew some interesting comments, offering a few things to think about. On average, the readers who replied see "Linux" as the opposite of macOS or Windows, basically an anti something. Not because of its strengths, but because of the flaws they associate with its "competitors". They also focus entirely on the desktop world, which I can understand.

   Many of them also confuse popularity with quality. The fact that other operating systems such as the BSDs or illumos are less widespread leads them to assume they are less "interesting". That is an ideological contradiction, because by the same logic Windows and macOS would be far superior to everything else simply because they dominate an enormous share of desktop systems.

   #ITNotes #OS #IT

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     omar (omar@mastodon.bsd.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Nov-2025 10:12:44 JST omar

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     @stefano Not good.
     Only people who were teenage in 2010s would think that.
     One who just discovered Ubuntu or was more webdev oriented.

     It matches the disinterest on infra/sysadmin stuff of that specific era when all the junkie salesmen were pushing for azure, aws and other serverless BS...

     And yes, Microsoft sucked and still sucks. The "right tool for the job" is a fallacy from people who would not really care, often FreeBSDsters :)

     M$ is about coercion, never technical merit.

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     Pierre-Alain TORET (daftaupe@snac.toret.fr)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Nov-2025 10:12:49 JST Pierre-Alain TORET

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     There's this quote from Theo de Raadt : “Linux people do what they do because they hate Microsoft. We do what we do because we love Unix.” I think it sums up pretty well why I prefer the BSD world.
     
     
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     Johnny Peligro (mischievoustomato@tsundere.love)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Nov-2025 10:13:18 JST Johnny Peligro

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     @stefano bsds seem to have qualities server-wise but less useful desktop/laptop-wise.