Future of Linux

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Hi all, :waving_hand:

this is a follow-up question on the topic About Android Sideloading Apps Policy Changes.

The topic was also mentioned in distrowatch´s latest newsletter (DistroWatch.com: Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD.) and, as always, there´s “Reader Comments” at the end of the page.

One reader took the whole subject a step further and commented the following:

Horrible decision, but not surprising. […]

I’ve been expecting a similar move on pc’s.
I would not be surprised if, at some point, they try to ban Linux for “ordinary people”, declaring it to be for developers only, or worse, as a tool of terrorists.
Linux is already compromised in comparison to where it was 20 years ago. The god of convenience has been sacrificed to more than once. […]

(underscore by me)

Wow :astonished_face: .

What´s your take on it? Does the reader have a point here?
Or is he unduly worried?

Unfortunaltely I´m easily worried, so I thought it might be a good idea to submit this theory to the forum.

Is the future of Linux really at stake (the way he described it) for us normal people :red_question_mark:

Thanks a lot and many greetings from Rosika :slightly_smiling_face:

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Hi Rosika,
I doubt it. History shows that you cant force the majority of ordinary people to do anything. They will find an escape hatch.
Regards
Neville

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Hi Neville, :waving_hand:

thanks for providing your opinion on the matter.

Let´s hope Linux will stay available for us in some way or another.

Cheers from Rosika :slightly_smiling_face:

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I didn’t get the point of why the F-Droid thing should relate to Linux on my PC. Separate pair of shoes.

OK, it might look very unfortunate for Android apps, devs and users.
But how should they™ influence any of my Linux installs? It’s far beyond my imagination.

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@abu :

Hi Alfred, :waving_hand:

thanks for your reply.

I think the commentator didn´t mean to establish any relationship between the Adroid app topic and Linux distros.

If I understood him correctly he suggested that “Linux for ordinary people” might have a similar fate:

"I would not be surprised if, at some point, they try to ban Linux for “ordinary people”

My personal opinion is this would be pretty far-fetched. I just posted it here to collect some opinions from the forum folks here. :wink:

Thanks again and cheers from Rosika :slightly_smiling_face:

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Who would have thought that the entire internet would basically be controlled by four companies (Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Meta) these days? Yet it’s true today.

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Agree. I think the Linux thing is scaremongering.
The time Linux users have to worry is when we lose Linus.

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That’s a scary thought… spine-chilling…

The Macedonian Empire : the largest the world had seen up to that time - stretching from Greece and the Balkans, across Anatoloia, Egypt, all of the Levant, Mesopotamia, Persia/Iran and Afghanistan and to the Indus River and the foothills of the Himalayas… Soon as Alexander The Great died, the whole thing collapsed… It did “Hellenize” the middle east, Egypt and even influenced Buddhism - but it pretty much fell apart…

Does Linus actually have another benevolent dictator waiting in the wings?

That’s a disturbing thought… I’ve only just considered it just now… Linus will be 60 in 4 years time!

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Nah… in 4 years time we’ll have a perfect brain-computer interface and will copy Linus’ brain to a computer to be benevolent dictator of Linux forever!

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