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The year of the Linux Desktop will always be $CURRENT_YEAR + 1
by notThrowingAway 5mo ago
The year of the Linux Desktop will always be $CURRENT_YEAR + 1
- dmos62 5mo agoWhat do you call a fallacy where it is implied that the future will be like the past?
- j-bos 5mo agoMaybe similar to boy who cried wolf?
- xpe 5mo agoReminds me about schools of thought on rates of change: > ## Accelerating Change [One School] > > Our intuitions about change are linear; we expect roughly > as much change as has occurred in the past over our own > lifetimes. But technological change feeds on itself, and > therefore accelerates. Change today is faster than it was > 500 years ago, which in turn is faster than it was 5000 > years ago. Our recent past is not a reliable guide to how > much change we should expect in the future. > > Strong claim: Technological change follows smooth curves, > typically exponential. Therefore we can predict with fair > precision when new technologies will arrive, and when they > will cross key thresholds, like the creation of [AI]. > > Advocates: Ray Kurzweil, Alvin Toffler(?), John Smart https://www.yudkowsky.net/singularity/schools
- mayukh 5mo agolinear % change implies exponential change in absolute terms
- almostjazz 5mo agoProblem of induction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_induction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_induction
- BeetleB 5mo ago"The future aint what it used to be."
- pyrale 5mo agoTo me, the year's in the past. I haven't touched Windows since 2017, and nothing bad happened to me. But you're right, I guess for some people, there will already be a good reason not to use Linux.
- stronglikedan 5mo agoThe year of the Linux Desktop will be powered by fusion.
- neocron 5mo agoI did the switch in 2013 and haven't missed it. For games I ran vga_passthrough and later VFIO and others until pretty recently (I think right after covid I switched to steam directly on linux)