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    21 hours ago

    I always thought Red Star OS would be mandated

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    1 day ago

    Most of the popular countries I see mostly tried to promote linux/open source in the past.

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      Researchers probably run windows or Mac, but I’d guess the admins who maintain their infrastructure probably run Linux for themselves and on the infrastructure. And probably various tools that control things like core samplers and shit.

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      Meh, I’ve worked in IT infrastructure for science labs and research facilities- researchers are amazingly competent in their fields, and almost nothing else. I doubt many of them run Linux.

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    It makes sense. That’s where the Indian YouTube explainer guys live.

    Also, shame for us, although it matches the general run-by-old-people oligopoly vibe we have going in Canada.

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    Bro moving from hungary where tech literacy is low compared to the rest of europe but when people are tech literate they actually know something to sweden where people are absolute tech bros is so painful. I had quite a few friends in hungary who used linux daily, a majority of them not even that deep into it, while here most people dont even know it exists. Every time i open my laptop someone has to fucking point out that “lol you use linux are you a hacker” which gets fucking annoying after a while.

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        Yeah but isnt just tech literacy, its what you can do with it. You are literate if you can read dailymail but its a much higher literacy level if you can reed shakespear. And with this analogy for some reason hungary has very few people who can read compared to most western countries but has a much larger percentage of people who read shakespear. Idk what the cause is tho.

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    Why is China and Japan so low? Is that just bad reporting? Is it a language / character support issue?

    I’d think China would want their own government run distro they can control.

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      Having set up japanese input method on both ubuntu and arch not to long ago: It’s a bit janky. Defenetly not just “hit install”.

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        Mosc isn’t bad. I even set the keyboard shortcuts to their Windows IME equivalents cause it’s easy to remember.

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          it’s not, the setup is just a little bit jank on kde wayland (and it’s already better then on kde X11)

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      China could potentially be explained by them not giving a fuck about software piracy – at least in the 90s and early 2000s – so money was never a motivation to move to Linux.

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    Is this just desktops?

    Informally, walking through anybody’s house, I can find dozens of linux devices. They’re just white label. Your digital thermostat? Linux. Washing machine? Linux. Wi-Fi access point? Linux. ISP issued CPE? Linux. Switch? Linux

    Audio mixing board? Linux …

    Intel management engine… minux, so basically Linux.

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      not to mention…Every 5G iPhone has modem firmware running linux.

      and of course every Android phone.

      But yes anything else with an IP address that’s not a Windows/Mac/BSD computer… likely Linux.

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      A lot of those are running either minix, BSD, or some other ultralightweight OS. and those are definitely not Linux. Not even close.

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        Minix has not been updated in 10 years. It should not be used on anything connected to the internet.

        Most “ultralight stripped down OS” will be built from linux these days. Usually Tiny Core Linux or Alpine.

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          What’s this Minux you keep talking about?

          I think you overestimate the money companies are willing to spend on memory and CPU for white line appliances. I actually have friends who have worked in R&D in the industry, cheap bastards wouldn’t splurge for an AmpOp if a BJT could do the job. If something required brains, a cheap small SoC was the way to go, with all its 64-256KB of memory.

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    Ukraine, whaaat?? Have the constant cyber attacks pushed them towards more secure options?