Discord joke that it's The Year of the Linux Desktop

Quoting: Linux_Rocks

Quoting: LinuxwarperGoogle is increasingly a great example of a company that used open source like a cheap prostitute, excuse my vulgarity, and now they are shutting down Android.

One could also argue the same thing with Apple and macOS. As at the start, Apple were touting the open source origins of Mac OS X.

Not really the same. Apple butchered Darwin, sure (never mind CUPS, OpenGL support, and probably others), but it never covered anywhere close to what was under AOSP. All Apple cared about with Darwin marketing was attracting whatever Unix fans they could.

Last edited by Phlebiac on 14 May 2026 at 7:35 am UTC

The year is not here yet, I'll celebrate once we hit perhaps 10% of the desktop market share. At least according to Steam we're doing quite okay.

Already exceeding 10% there, if you only care about English.

Quoting: Phlebiac

Quoting: Linux_Rocks

Quoting: LinuxwarperGoogle is increasingly a great example of a company that used open source like a cheap prostitute, excuse my vulgarity, and now they are shutting down Android.

One could also argue the same thing with Apple and macOS. As at the start, Apple were touting the open source origins of Mac OS X.

Not really the same. Apple butchered Darwin, sure (never mind CUPS, OpenGL support, and probably others), but it never covered anywhere close to what was under AOSP. All Apple cared about with Darwin marketing was attracting whatever Unix fans they could.

My bad, I just remember them being all like "*BSD this" and "open source that" with Mac OS X and software. I also remember there being a thing with the Yellow Dog Linux people at the Apple Store near me too. I was really surprised about that, even back then.

Quoting: LinuxwarperProblem I see with the statement "Year of Linux" is that people dont consider the negatives of increased userbase. Users can also be a detriment. Ideally you would have just enough percentage to ensure platform is supported and doesn't get neglected, whether that be 5% or 40% is irrelevant.

No, ideally it would be everyone, because how do you want to protect your data if the data leak is not on your PC, but on your friends PCs?

All the people care for freedom etc will not disappear. Do you really think Debian or Arch will change with a bigger Linux user-base? As long these two distros are clean, I do not fear the future of Linux.

Now if Discord would make it so that Pipewire audio could be captured that would be nice. I think that might be the reason why on FF based browsers the desktop audio doesn't work.

I personally wouldn't want to use the app, but would like to use Discord in a web browser cause it's in a nice browser tab instead of a separate app.

Or maybe it's some other issue. Would need to test it out.

Last edited by TheLinuxPleb on 14 May 2026 at 11:19 am UTC

Quoting: PlayingOnLinuxphone

Quoting: LoudTechieIt's also scary, since I want to design complex tools and not be thrown under the bus next revolution.

Haha yes, that is also very true. But I think as long things are done with best will it is very unlikely. The revolution usually starts when something goes very very wrong.

I'm not saying I fear to be the one to trigger it(a little bit though, I've written some code with guillotine potential).
I'm saying I fear to be one the people taken down with the ones to blame.
Mobs aren't really known for their discerning eye in who to take down.

Quoting: Linux_Rocks

Quoting: Phlebiac

Quoting: Linux_Rocks

Quoting: LinuxwarperGoogle is increasingly a great example of a company that used open source like a cheap prostitute, excuse my vulgarity, and now they are shutting down Android.

One could also argue the same thing with Apple and macOS. As at the start, Apple were touting the open source origins of Mac OS X.

Not really the same. Apple butchered Darwin, sure (never mind CUPS, OpenGL support, and probably others), but it never covered anywhere close to what was under AOSP. All Apple cared about with Darwin marketing was attracting whatever Unix fans they could.

My bad, I just remember them being all like "*BSD this" and "open source that" with Mac OS X and software. I also remember there being a thing with the Yellow Dog Linux people at the Apple Store near me too. I was really surprised about that, even back then.

One of their tricks which sadly worked is swift.
MacOS is completely POSIX/UNIX certified.
This means it's completely possible to write forward compatible and platform agnostic code for MacOS, but if you actually want in the appstore or signed by Apple you've to use their completely separate functions set, which is neither of these things forcing you into their developer tools.

Wine succeeded, only because Apple needed it.