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Dadifer
lemmy.world

Industry analysts say the fragmentation is beginning to present logistical challenges. A typical Linux application must now support approximately 400 different distributions, 42 desktop environments, 7 competing display servers, and a window manager developed by a man who refuses to use a mouse for philosophical reasons.

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fractal618
lemmy.world

Similarly there are more toothbrushes than people on the planet

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Dadiferreply
lemmy.world

But are there more different kinds of toothbrush than there are on the planet? 🤔

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Dispassionatereply
quokk.au

You could also say that everyone uses Linux because the internet (servers) is pretty much all Linux.

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Doomsiderreply
lemmy.world

Or the billions of Android devices that covers the majority of all mobile devices.

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Artisianreply
lemmy.world

Seems like a fun fermi estimate. My numbers suggest that people are winning though? I've now run into a handful of folks irl using mint happily (and I only caused like one of those)

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Doomsiderreply
lemmy.world

Oh I was being a bit silly for sure.

I am daily driving Mint and messing around with Docker on my homelab at the moment.

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Linux Distribution Count Surpasses Number of People Using Linux | Spyke