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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: I installed openSUSE Leap
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2024 01:37:47 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sat, 19 Oct 2024 18:21:18 -0400, Joel wrote:

> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>On Fri, 18 Oct 2024 21:18:58 -0400, Joel wrote:
>>>
>>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>On Wed, 16 Oct 2024 22:00:28 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> [Linux is] not trying to take market share from Windows or MacOS ...
>>>>
>>>>It already has. It has gobbled up the entire computing ecosystem,
>>>>except for that tiny niche known as the “desktop”.
>>> 
>>> In all seriousness, man, that's just wild talk.
>>
>>ARM outships x86 something like 30:1, and RISC-V is not far behind.
>>
>>You were saying?
> 
> I'm saying that desktop is not a "niche".  How would ARM "outship"
> 30:1?  That's just fuzzy math, AFAICT.

Yes, in terms of volume, desktop is a “niche”. More ARM chips ship per 
year than the entire population of the Earth. And I believe RISC-V is now 
in that league, too.