linux fragmentation ecosystem

[nick65go]

https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/linux-old-problems-new-solutions.html
You can read in your spare time. If you like Linux then you like it with all its good and bad thinks (fragmentation).

[gadget42]

that was great. well worth the time to read and think about.

imho, linux rules the server world already and linux rules the "everyday_everyperson" world in the Alpha/Google android implimentation(Rob Pike of plan9 fame has worked at google for years now)

i don't know what the next "market winner" will be or look like, but unless it can replace/supplant the hardware/firmware/software that is ALREADY in everyone's pockets AND at the very same time is ALREADY running all the _wizard_of_oz_behind_the_curtain_server/cloud_stuff_ it probably doesn't stand a chance in hell.

as always, ymmv.

[gadget42]

also for the _who_is_this_person_ folks:

https://www.dedoimedo.com/about.html

Igor Ljubuncic reminds me of Michael W. Lucas

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mwlucas/networking-for-system-administrators-2nd-edition/

modified to add additional commentary/weblink

[gadget42]

speaking of Alphabet/Google please see:

https://f-droid.org/en/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html

https://www.androidauthority.com/android-developer-registration-3591988/

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/25235-google-wants-to-verify-all-app-developers-identities

also reading/rereading those reminded me of another commentary i read just a few hours ago(another research project...sigh):

one post of note:
https://www.reddit.com/r/socialmedia/comments/bkrkz1/comment/emj9zjh/

greater thread:
https://www.reddit.com/r/socialmedia/comments/bkrkz1/is_there_anyway_that_you_can_bypass_facebook/

(and yes i know the facebook stuff is old news...smh)

and speaking regarding "social media" there is also this phenomenon (love that word, kudos to Immanuel Kant):

https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/129rca4/is_it_normal_to_not_get_hired_due_to_not_having_a/

[nick65go]

these articles can be served with a little alcohol to numb the (potential) anger or dissatisfaction about the evolution of Linux.  YMMV.

"Why Linux is not ready for the desktop, the final edition" from February 1, 2026
https://itvision.altervista.org/why.linux.is.not.ready.for.the.desktop.final.html

the old one here " Major Linux Problems on the Desktop, 2023 edition"
https://itvision.altervista.org/why.linux.is.not.ready.for.the.desktop.current.html

[mocore]

https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/linux-old-problems-new-solutions.html
You can read in your spare time.

oogle succeeded, and we're blind to the dozens if not thousands of Googlesque companies that no longer exist, and no one remembers anymore.

tbh Bethany (welcome to the party pall) McLean remembers writing a column titled "company's to watch"  ... tho tbh this might have been during the goog accent !
https://youtu.be/EEuXIuk09Ns?t=205

ether way the lessons / conclusions ;
likely still relevant

"absolute power something something"
as the saying goes