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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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The future of Linux (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm not proposing anything here, I'm curious what you all think of the future.

What is your vision for what you want Linux to be?

I often read about wanting a smooth desktop experience like on MacOS, or having all the hardware and applications supported like Windows, or the convenience of Google products (mail, cloud storage, docs), etc.

A few years ago people were talking about convergence of phone/desktop, i.e. you plug your phone into a big screen and keyboard and it's now your desktop computer. That's one vision. ChromeOS has its "everything is in the cloud" vision. Stallman has his vision where no matter what it is, the most important part is that it's free software.

If you could decide the future of personal computing, what would it be?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Better documentation for any distribution not called Arch. Better bugtrackers for all major projects? (KDE, Thunderbird etc)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We need documentation standards on the level of OpenBSD

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm surprised how great BSDs documentation is despite having a smaller userbase than even linux. Probably a result of less fragmentation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Less fragmentation is part of the reason. The other part is that BSDs mandate documentation for their component software. Documentation by developers is obviously better than those created by regular users (like the arch wiki). Arch wiki is actually phenomenal considering that it's by the user community.