@rriemann

In light of the (to me surprising) dominance of RedHat and Suse Linux, two thoughts:

1. Scientific microscopy vendors have no excuse to continue to provide their microscope controller software for Microsoft Windows. There are at least two well-established enterprise linux distributions. I am looking at you, #Zeiss #CarlZeissAG and your laser-scanning confocal and scanning electron microscopes. A commercial linux OS would be leaps and bounds better than #Microslop.

2. The recent announcement of Suse Linux being on sale is less surprising, considering it's a company, not a charity, and they sell an open source product, Suse Linux, which I am seeing reports has gone all in with locally integrated LLMs ("AI", for the uninformed) that enables companies to not depend on cloud services, or to do so in a way independent of a specific provider. In addition to providing an integrated office environment, not unlike Microsoft's. The allure to companies seems evident.

#linux