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This is all sizzle no steak. Marketing without substance, frankly. A proof-of-concept doesn't provide any value. For Linux to gain further adoption a gargantua

by gizmo 1y ago

This is all sizzle no steak. Marketing without substance, frankly. A proof-of-concept doesn't provide any value. For Linux to gain further adoption a gargantuan effort is needed to get things from 90% done (or 90% working) to fully working. Any Linux distribution is already suitable for government use. Manjaro, Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian. They're all fine distros. The only remaining problem is quality. Things don't work or suddenly stop working for no apparent reason. For government use that's a deal-breaker. It's also a deal-breaker for gamers. Which is why SteamOS has been relentlessly fixing reliability issues. So if I had to bet on a linux distro going mainstream, it would be that one.

ta1243 1y ago
Do you work in modern enterprise fleet management? Linux is fine for an individual - I've used it for over 25 years no problem. I have no idea if modern desktop configuration management and centralised identity like mdm/intune/sccm/ad even exist, let alone how well they work in the real world Your mention of SteamOS suggests that you don't understand the considerations governments and enterprises have in fleet management, but maybe I'm misunderstanding your statement.
fsflover 1y ago
> Things don't work or suddenly stop working for no apparent reason. What are you talking about exactly? It's not my experience.
- popcorncowboy 1y ago
  You are clearly not a front-end developer
  - fsflover 1y ago
    This is just a shallow dismissal, which is against the HN guidelines.
    - popcorncowboy 1y ago
      I'm funnier on stage.
niam 1y ago
This seems unreasonably dismissive. Spitballing as to why: * "Fedora-based" was skipped over. Or it wasn't, but you intuited something else from that term, maybe without the backdrop of Fedora's bootable containers or uBlue. Or with awareness of those tech, but without valuing their contributions to system stability (or the contributions of the broader "immutable"/"declarative" projects) as much as they perhaps warrant. * You believe a govt end user's notion of "software quality" to matter more than (basically) any other stakeholder's notion. Or you don't recognize as intensely as I that simply having a URL to point at (or more importantly for older bureaucrats: a PDF / PDF printability) is a multiplying force on the ability to get in front of someone who makes policy decisions.

by gizmo 1y ago

ta1243 1y ago

Do you work in modern enterprise fleet management? Linux is fine for an individual - I've used it for over 25 years no problem. I have no idea if modern desktop configuration management and centralised identity like mdm/intune/sccm/ad even exist, let alone how well they work in the real world Your mention of SteamOS suggests that you don't understand the considerations governments and enterprises have in fleet management, but maybe I'm misunderstanding your statement.

fsflover 1y ago

> Things don't work or suddenly stop working for no apparent reason. What are you talking about exactly? It's not my experience.

popcorncowboy 1y ago
You are clearly not a front-end developer
- fsflover 1y ago
  This is just a shallow dismissal, which is against the HN guidelines.
  - popcorncowboy 1y ago
    I'm funnier on stage.

niam 1y ago

This seems unreasonably dismissive. Spitballing as to why: * "Fedora-based" was skipped over. Or it wasn't, but you intuited something else from that term, maybe without the backdrop of Fedora's bootable containers or uBlue. Or with awareness of those tech, but without valuing their contributions to system stability (or the contributions of the broader "immutable"/"declarative" projects) as much as they perhaps warrant. * You believe a govt end user's notion of "software quality" to matter more than (basically) any other stakeholder's notion. Or you don't recognize as intensely as I that simply having a URL to point at (or more importantly for older bureaucrats: a PDF / PDF printability) is a multiplying force on the ability to get in front of someone who makes policy decisions.