If linux is over, dead, nada, gone… What are you going to use? Are you going to work on the inevitable fork? Are you going to use OpenBSD? Do you know?
Personally, I’ll either work on the fork and make it better than ever through bugtesting or learning C more and more, or I’ll quit and go to Icaros Desktop like I said in the Ask Noah episode I was on.
It gets better and better by the week. Amigas! Anyways…
I’m scared. I don’t want to see Linux die, but if it does I’ll probably be on my computer less and outside more. If I’m at my desk I’ll be on my PS3 playing Persona 5…
I have windows and OSX to fall back on so, meh, personally. In this hypothetical, it would be terrible to lose something so amazing, but I have no qualms using other OSs.
Now that it has been out for a few years and you can get rid of some of the botnet it’s not so bad. Some of the new features are very nice and most, if not all devices work out of the box (compared to having to take ethernet drivers over on a flash drive for most motherboards on 7). You will have to deal with the NSA bits, but it’s a fact of life living in the US at this point. My only real issue with 10 from an end user’s perspective is that it’s a total ram hog.
In case Linux as we know it will die it will probably just get forked, however let’s say the project dies off completely I’ll probably move to Mac OS and wait for a BSD distro to get up to speed.
It is possible for Linux to die. Just stop using x86. if for example most consumer devices used ARM from any major manufacturer, they control the binary blobs, and could kill it when they wanted to. (correct me if im wrong)
Something else could come along, not GPLd and takes over linux. GPL protects us as end users, so without it it may be inaccessible or just not fit for purpose. You’ll still have Linux but it’ll be like BSD special purpose use.
just run a fork of linux in a virtual box on windows MacOS and use a tunnel out so the main OS can’t snaffle the network activity. And put every other device on my network into it’s own VLAN.
But it’s not going to happen, at least not for a good while longer.