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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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[–] Corgana@startrek.website 17 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I know this is a joke but "Enshittification" requires there to be a monopoly that abuses commercial customers along with users. Linux distros can't really have monopolies since the switching costs are so low.

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Except if you are locked out of system management and you just can't switch. Or only at the price of hardware incompatibilities and consumer apps refusing to work when they see you after practicing your ownership of the device.
See Android.

[–] Caboose12000@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

The video actually addresses that by mentioning a company coming in nice at first and then doing EEE to kill off ll competition and leave them the only significant player in the space

[–] HumanPerson@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What about a distro that artificially raises the switching cost?

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Real question, how difficult is moving from Red Hat to SUSE?

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

How hard is it for you to install a different distro? That's how hard.

[–] Auzy@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not really. On Lemmy, it seems to just refer to anything these days

And that includes theoretical predictions for things that never happened yet