9x0rg2d ago

> Linux didn't win the way anyone expected. There was no dramatic moment where Ubuntu overtook Windows on the desktop. No press conference. No champagne. Linux won the way open source always wins — gradually, relentlessly, by being better at the things that matter most to the people building the future.

**Linux Won, and Nobody Noticed**

https://www.junauza.com/2026/03/linux-won-and-nobody-noticed.html

#Linux #OS #MSFT #OpenSource

Linux Won, and Nobody Noticed

The tech industry has failed to properly acknowledge this for years: Linux won. Not "Linux is doing fine." Not "Linux is making progress." N...

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Show threadDavid. Beware of imitators.1d ago
@9x0rg Is this a good thing, not from my pov. When corporate hawks spot an up and comer it means commercialization. They'll create a linux based gui desktop but make the bells and whistles proprietary to lock in users. Then turn around and use their lawyers to restrict opensource gui from competition. Look what they did to the internet.
Show threadrg4w

@waitingforthesign @9x0rg AFAIK, whenever attempts to subvert Linux freedoms have been decided in a courtroom, the GPL has prevailed.

May the future remain as sane. 🤞

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Show threadDavid. Beware of imitators.1d ago

@FourthWorld @9x0rg
For now. There are no saints in linux.

https://en.linuxadictos.com/manjaro-is-no-longer-just-a-linux-distribution-and-becomes-a-whole-company.html

Manjaro is no longer just a Linux distribution and becomes a whole company

Manjaro, one of the most popular distributions, will become a company with ambitious plans for the future. We will tell you.

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Show threadrg4w1d ago

@waitingforthesign @9x0rg all humans are flawed; the concept of "saint" is aspirational.

From a quick skim of that news it looks like Manjaro is making a service play so they can put full-timers on updates. That would seem useful to the ecosystem as a whole, no?

Show threadDavid. Beware of imitators.1d ago
@FourthWorld Think of it this way both Apple and Win operate on an internet system developed on unix and structured on linux because it is opensource, magic word 'free'. To access the code public users need Win or Apple. If more LinuxOS's start commercializing like you indicated If it will start small, like services. It starts small but competition will drive the need for a better product to attract users to pay the coders, and on and on till you have a proprietary company.