thecureforzits

All significant open source development today is done by folks who are not "scratching an itch" but cashing a paycheck, and the projects they release are things that would not have made them money anyway. The actual valuable stuff the trillion-dollar companies of today do is still overwhelmingly closed because secrecy is still a better way to engineer products that sell.

Windows lets you run Linux apps at the same speed as raw metal Linux, but with good drivers for things like video cards, wifi, etc. Windows also gives you access to a more diverse selection of its own apps so you can get your day job done. As for Macs, you get nearly the same benefits as that but now you also get access to the best hardware money can buy, from the cpu right up. I'm sure Linux will be ported to Apple Silicon eventually, but one look at the history of Linux even on x86 laptops shows how it will suck with half-finished drivers, shitty UI and terrible touchpad semantics, etc. Linux will always be a third rate OS for desktops.

Wake me when someone with more credibility than John Ratcliffe backs this bullshit up.

If you look at my comment history and hilarious knee-jerk downvoting of anything remotely critical of the HN hive mind, it should be clear to you that I meant that sarcastically.

Who wouldn't want to take investment advice from the internet's top minds?

You become what you hate.

“No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.”

Why? What market is there in open source any more?

Might makes right.

Interesting also to note that comments like yours pointing out the flimsiness of the evidence are being heavily censored by HN.

One look at the comments in a typical HN thread about FOSS shows how good a job the big players (Google, Apple, Microsoft, etc) have done turning what was a threat into an asset. We literally now have people proclaiming how great it is to be able to work without being paid as if it were a badge of honor.