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2026-05-06 17:58 UTC
@pl@cosocial.ca @cholling@bytes.programming.dev @Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net Linux is the only meaningful competitor to Apple and Microsoft OSes, and it's a niche thing that is mostly used for servers rather than by end users. It's also now subsidized by corporations because they use it as infrastructure.
Browsers on the other hand are an end user thing, so the value proposition of trying to break Google's (and to a lesser extent) Apple's hegemony is much different - especially since Google is also propping up Mozilla to suck even more oxygen.
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@beeoproblem@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-05-06 20:44
@HunterZ@mastodon.sdf.org @pl@cosocial.ca @cholling@bytes.programming.dev @Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net Linux is also the foundation that Android runs on. The vast majority of users don't interact with the Linux-y parts of it but they're there.