Bob 🇺🇲♒🐧🪖  

I've often wondered. Please boost.

What is your preferred Operating System? This will run for 30 days. Please vote and boost.
#Linux #Mac #Microsoft

9481 people · Sep 22, 2024, 23:46
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Taylan (Grass-Touching Arc)  
@bob What you are referring to as "Linux" is, in fact, GNU+Linux or just GNU for short.
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m0xEE  

@taylan
No, it isn't!
On Fedi it's most often Alpine and that doesn't use GNU userspace 😜
@bob

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Taylan (Grass-Touching Arc)  
@m0xee @bob I can't imagine Alpine being that common even among Fedi users. Think of all the normie Mastodon users... Gotta be tons of Ubuntu, Mint, etc. users. Lots of Arch too probably. As for the servers I would again expect mostly Debian-based. My Pleroma is on Debian.
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m0xEE  

@taylan
I have a Pleroma instance running on a 32-bit PowerPC machine (old Mac Mini) running musl flavour of Void — which uses very few GNU userspace. But in any case, my post was a joke — I presume, same as yours 😁
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Taylan (Grass-Touching Arc)  
@m0xee @bob I never joke and all of my posts are serious.
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m0xEE
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@taylan
Well, in this case you're absolutely right 😆
It'd be either Arch or flavours of Ubuntu, depending on in which parts of Fedi the poll gets more boosts, and, I've never used Arch myself, but they don't appear too different — same glibc, gnu userspace and even the systemd, package manager being the only major difference. Oh, and one has a reputation of being more user-friendly and the other being for advanced users, both are debatable — but that's it.
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