What would Linux users do if Windows ceased to exist overnight, and they were the sole option on x86 desktops? For 35 years Windows gave them the reason to exist, their arch-nemesis to fight against. What if they got what they wanted? What would they do next now that they're at the top?
>>110273550Linux users already fight against themselves, nothing will change if windows is gone
>>110273550Another MS would take over. They would either use the Linux kernel, and actually build something usable on top, or adopt/make something else.Nature abhors a vacuum or something
>>110273550>What would Linux users do if Windows ceased to exist overnightLarp as technoelite for a few years until someone creates some kind of windows-like distribution.
>>110273655most linux distros now are windows-like
We already have "Microsoft-like" Linux distros. Why do you think snap, systemd and rust are shilled so hard?
Open sauce NT based versions will proliferate like crazzy
>>110273550I genuinely think Apple is more cancerous than Microsoft in some regards, like their normalization of software entirely being walled in their ecosystem for their hardware and devices, and attempts to socially bully people who don't have their device with a green bubble or whatever.Chromebooks are also fucking terrible, same with new Googlebooks. Those systems are so pozzed yet nobody cares. They're pretty much just Chrome, and your data being syphoned 24/7.In general there will always be a villain and a competitor. Plus linux does not prevent people to make terrible OS's based on the linux kernel. Just like at North Korea's OS.
>>110273660>>110273672Most of distros might look like Windows, but their architecture is still very stiff, fragmented, require constant terminal work just to keep things stable, lacks of standardized software and every update break what you already set on your system.
>>110273550>Windows ceased to exist overnightCatastrophic it would make every other tech crisis look manageable in comparison.>What would Linux users doWe will see a revival of The Unix haters but for Linux instead as Linux is no longer the hip and cool thing for script kiddies people would see the flaws and rightfully shit on Linux while, Linux users would cope, seethe and dilate as they have been for years while the masses would be moving to the Mac.It would be the end of the PC as we know it.- The Linux desktop is an afterthought.- There is no real unity- Manufactures would make their own Linux spins as non of the distros are any good and they would hear a lot of complains, they would be incompatible with each other and we would see the mobile android ideas of a locked bootloader come to the PC as Linus HATES ACPI and is pro Device Trees the PC would move to that model as Linux is the dominant OS.
>>110273722Ive had more things breaking with updates with windows than with linux.
that possibility is dumb, almost as much as rocks
>>110273550100% move to Mac it's the next os that actually works that people with jobs can actually use
>>110273550>What would Linux users do if Windows ceased to exist overnighti would keep using linux like i have been for the past 10 years
>>110273550Windows 7 has already been deprecated, your scenario has already happened, Linux is on top and nothing has changed.>>110273874>Catastrophic it would make every other tech crisis look manageable in comparison.Yeah it would be pretty insane how much critical infrastructure running Windows 95 or XP or whatever would just fail with no recovery.
>>110273564Shut up, gnome tard!, KDE fucks your ass with a resurrection !
>>110273564gnome users just get fucked in the ass by kde chads. there is no fighting. it's consensual.
>>110273550some pirated or community maintained patching of windows will takeover then whoever manage to create an OS that is as identical as Windows that gets sold as default OS will takeover. Most likely SteamOS. Normies isn't going to install a new OS. If it gets to a point they need to use a terminal, the vast majority will simply just choose to get their work done on their phone.
>>110276878yes lesbians make sweet love to each other doing that vice versa regardless of their difference of opinion in desktop user interfaces, but it is always consensual.
