• hperrin@lemmy.ca
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    9 hours ago

    It’s funny because without Linux, they wouldn’t have any of their modern luxuries, but they’re usually completely ignorant to that fact, like a bird eating fries off the ground thinking they’re really good at scavenging food.

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      6 hours ago

      You know people would just… Use other operating systems, right? The march of Technology doesn’t just halt because Linux never got invented, it likely would have just ended up with smaller machines using a stripped down form of windows

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        6 hours ago

        Yeah, I know that. It would probably be BSD though. Doesn’t change what I said though. They’d be ignorant of whatever else it was. It definitely wouldn’t be Windows though. Proprietary systems would never work for things like server farms that have 500,000 servers.

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          5 hours ago

          What are you basing this off of? The alternate histories stock market history?

          I promise you if Linux wasn’t invented we would have made another niche product or adapted what we have lol, the world doesn’t need to revolve around Linux

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            4 hours ago

            I’m basing off of the fact that Microsoft doesn’t even use Windows for their server fleets. Windows makes a terrible server.