Clive ThompsonDec 1, 2024

Since there’s been a resurgence lately of the “mastodon is mostly just for folks who use Linux” thing …

… i’m now curious about my community here

(i’m offering intentionally crude and ungranular options in this poll)

“I use Linux …”

(Please boost!)

Every day
55.3%
Occasionally
22%
Never
22.7%
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Show threadClive ThompsonDec 1, 2024

Personally I am in the “occasionally”

I float between a modern top-of-the-line MacBook Pro, a cheap desktop running windows, and a 13-year-old Thinkpad running Linux

Show threadBill RickerDec 1, 2024

@clive
WellActually(tm) the MacBook is running BSD Unix, that of which Linux was an imitation, so you're in the larger POSIX or *nix camp.

I'm almost sufficiently annoyed with Linux today to install a noncommercial BSD on desktop. (I already prefer BSD for servers.)

Of course, everyone using Android phones&tablets as their daily-driver in lieu of laptop/desktop are also Linux users, whether they know it or not. (Ditto Samaung TV with YouTube App.)

Show threadBill RickerDec 1, 2024
@clive (I'm currently typing with thumbs on the android glass brick 📱 because I was watching sportsball, not yet glued to my Linux desktop for the evening, which has a larger screen than the TV, how's that for priorities? 😉)
Show threadClive Thompson

@BRicker

love it!

Dec 1, 2024 at 8:08pmWeb
Show threadBill RickerDec 1, 2024
@clive
recycled ThinkPads are my favorite laptop Linux platform!
(For many years I found a refurb/used Dock to match, and that was my desktop. Particularly convenient when i could match the dock for my $work laptop (MSWin+mksTk&cygwin+HummingbirdX and VPN to our Linux&Unix servers))