you literally have to run installation script or follow instructions from arch wiki. slap some de to it and you’re good. doesn’t take a smart person to do.
to properly maintain it for longer periods forever though, takes some more skill.
Chromium was, however, a Google product from the very beginning that Google open-sourced themselves. Linux is too big with too many non-profit and for-profit companies and tons of independent individuals participating in its development for one person or company to control it outright.
I mean, sure, for profit companies like Red Hat, SUSE, Canonical do have some influence but not so much that you can’t ignore their contributions if you don’t like them.
For example, some ubuntu based distros (i.e Mint) circumvent snap from being installed the ubuntu way (without asking) because it goes against their philosophy. And if that’s still too much Ubuntu for you, there’s a Debian Edition of mint. And if that’s still too same-y for you, there are dozens of other distros based on slackware, rhel/fedora, arch, Gentoo, etc. There even are Linux distros without GNU.
So, unless Muskiboy buys Linus Torvalds, I think the Linux community could easily ignore him building his own xOS.
The nice thing about Linux is, he can’t buy it and fuck it up.
He can still fuck up the community.
How?
Let me put it to you this way.
Elon Musk fanboys, now running arch.
Just… Let that simmer for a minute.
Anyone smart enough to run Arch is smart enough to recognize Elon is an imbecile.
As a complete idiot who uses arch on her main PC, I can attest that you don’t have to be particularly smart to use it.
But do you recognize Musk as an imbecile? If you do you’re smarter than you think.
Take it from me, people who openly say they’re idiots usually aren’t. Socrates: I now know I know nothing.
you literally have to run installation script or follow instructions from arch wiki. slap some de to it and you’re good. doesn’t take a smart person to do.
to properly maintain it for longer periods forever though, takes some more skill.
NixOs has entered the chat
He’ll claim he invented it
Well, he at least invented X11…
Popularize among his follower base and make it cringe to use Linux
You say that, but I’ll be more than willing to try and sell him a copy of the source code.
For extra irony, sell him an NFT to the source code.
Just like chromium is safe from Google?
Chromium was, however, a Google product from the very beginning that Google open-sourced themselves. Linux is too big with too many non-profit and for-profit companies and tons of independent individuals participating in its development for one person or company to control it outright.
I mean, sure, for profit companies like Red Hat, SUSE, Canonical do have some influence but not so much that you can’t ignore their contributions if you don’t like them.
For example, some ubuntu based distros (i.e Mint) circumvent snap from being installed the ubuntu way (without asking) because it goes against their philosophy. And if that’s still too much Ubuntu for you, there’s a Debian Edition of mint. And if that’s still too same-y for you, there are dozens of other distros based on slackware, rhel/fedora, arch, Gentoo, etc. There even are Linux distros without GNU.
So, unless Muskiboy buys Linus Torvalds, I think the Linux community could easily ignore him building his own xOS.