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On 13/10/2024 01:56, Phillip Frabott wrote:
> I think the innovation is slowing down because GNU/Linux has finally 
> caught up to where other operating systems are today. The same could be 
> said about Windows or MacOS. They really aren't innovating with any 
> speed either. My biggest thing is that I hope with us at a point now 
> where we have technological parity with the other OSes, we can start to 
> see projects finish the 'last mile' of development. Most of the 
> FOSS/OSS/Freedom Software out there is 80% and they just stop developing 
> as "good enough". Which it is, but that extra 20% polish would really 
> create a top notch system that can truly rival and even overthrow the 
> other operating systems. We should try to shift our focus on building 
> the software to 100% but finishing that polish needed for most packages 
> out there.

Yep. For all traditional applications Linux is now Good Enough and I am 
FAR more interested on having applications that run on it, in my 
personal linux space.

I've got a linux that is yonks old still running a public webserver.
My car is 17 years old too., It runs OK



-- 
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale 
returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

Mark Twain