berkes 🐝 🚐 🏄 🌱

Many criticasters jokingly compare the current rise of "Mastodon" with "next year will be the year of Linux".

But here's the thing: every year that a few people have success by using Linux is "the year of Linux".

Every person who can communicate with other people on mastodon is a clear win. Is success. Nothing more is needed.

The goal of such systems isn't to be "the biggest" or "grow 10% every year".
The goal is to offer value to people. Any amount of people.

Nov 7, 2022 at 12:16pmWeb
Show threadStian ØverbyeNov 7, 2022
@berkes what a great way to think about it!
Show threadRumblestiltskinNov 7, 2022
@berkes
They don't realise my "year of Linux" was over 15 years ago and it doesn't really matter when other's "year of Linux" is because there are so many already making it great!
Show threadMOVED [email protected]Nov 7, 2022

@berkes it's been the year of Linux for me for 15 years.

Also Android.

Also Steamdeck.

Also Microsoft has been working on Linux for YEARS.

So to those folks, your arbitrary definition has no sway over my reality. :-)

Show threadberkes 🐝 🚐 🏄 🌱Nov 7, 2022

@ozoned yea. It used to be "next year will be the year of Linux - ghegheghe".

Then, when nearly every household on the world runs linuxes (car, phone, router, doorbell) and nearly all internet goes through and to linuxe-servers, the goal-posts were quickly moved. It now is "Next year will be the jear of Linux on the Desktop - ghegheghe"

Show threadMOVED [email protected]Nov 7, 2022
@berkes And Linux has "won" all of those, so folks get more and more interested into how they can start clawing back their freedoms. There's a meme going around Mastodon about how folks wanted to move off Twitter, found Masto, and barely understood it a day later want to run their own, so then they have to figure out Linux. Each of these technologies built on Linux is a gateway to more and more and more freedoms, mostly pinned up on Linux. :-) LOVE IT. \o/
Show threadMatti JärvinenNov 7, 2022

@ozoned @berkes also every cloud service running Linux is a win.

It's not #Linux on desktop but does it really have to be? Inch by inch crawling to the inevitable win is a win of it's own.

I wouldn't be too surprised if #Windows 20 turn out to be a Linux distribution.

Show threaddaveNov 7, 2022
@ozoned @berkes I was about to say this. Linux is a pretty big deal for consumers these days.
Show threadNeilNov 7, 2022
@berkes well, Linux is more versatile compared to other OS. So, even though it is less popular compared to others, it doesn't mean that it is inferior compared to others. The same analogy can be applied to Mastodon, I guess.