Hard disagree. Only people that are already in linux-land should even think or talk about this, and only after they’re aware of what they depend on and whether they can even do that in the first place.

Main reason: biggest thing holding Linux back is user-base. The more users there are, the more that companies will actually care about supporting the OS. In the meantime, newbies to Linux need an OS that is as hassle free as possible that supports what they need. Windows and macOS have their downsides, but you can’t disagree that they work out of the box. You only get a few chances to get someone to even think about switching ecosystems, and going to a straight free distro is another huge hurdle on top of that. Most closed source applications only get tested on debian/rhel based distros anyway, I wouldn’t be able to do my my day job on a distro outside of that without some serious headache.

There are many closed source components that don’t have equivalent open source alternatives, and features are a thing that will snag many people. Most people aren’t technical.

Only helping those who are interested and are willing to debug things. Otherwise, windows 11 or macos it is

holy bejeezus, I would not go anywhere near that. Qt is not a programmer’s dream but it’s a hell of a lot better

Figure out your mass deployment strategy and the tooling that you’ll need to support it. The reason why Ubuntu and rhel are popular in these kinds of sectors is because of this tooling

I work in a company that deals with both commercial and government (military) software. The government is becoming more and more fixated on the software supply chain, or sw dependencies so to speak.

Existing dependencies are largely getting a pass for now, but with each new one I need to give a justification for. This includes the license of that software. I can’t use GPL at work.

This.

From the perspective of software preservation, we need this. Sometimes we won’t have the source, and just need it to work while also getting security updates.

From the perspective of software delivery: read up on JangaFX’s recent article about this topic and the problems they run into delivering software in the present

Does anybody know why ARM laptops can’t provide the same device tree info as all x86 devices?

sucks to hear, but thanks for your info!!

I figure that people are able to tell from context that I mean GNU/Linux

Sounds like it’s possible, but maybe with a backup phone. Unfortunately I do have some apps that I need to be able to run which only support iOS and android