I wonder if the numbers would be higher if there wasn’t so much crossover between Linux users and unwillingness to pay for stuff that can be gotten for free

It was probably sports that made VHS the winner. Porn was on both technologies (and available at local video rental places in Australia at least).

VHS could handle a full gridiron game (but not a cricket match) but Betamax couldn’t.

One could alternatively run GNU hurd, then you also get Debian but also cachè

You can get a good approximation, multiply the pie graph percentages by a plausible population of PornHub users, get plausible numbers for each group, use those numbers to work out plausible numbers for the second graph

Thinkpads are more expensive and far far less user serviceable

Why do you use Lemmy, given the politics of its own source creator? Bit hypocritical.

So you won’t buy the most user maintainable and repairable laptop, that also comes with Linux and probably worth open source firmware in the not too distant future because you don’t like the politics of the owner of an open source project the company supports?

That really feels like cutting off your nose to spite your face

1985

Nearly 20 years into the Unix epoch

I’m pretty sure every distro lets you pay if you want to. Many beg you to

If you came to my place, I’d give you free beer - I’m a home brewer but not much of a drinker

Mint upgrades have been pretty smooth for my partner and myself

My thought (from before smartphones) was a computer you could mount on your belt or in a backpack, connected to a pocket sized screen that could unfold or unroll to become reasonable sized

At home you could plug it into your monitor, mouse, and keyboard

I think I imagined a touch UI

It would have run Linux, but it wasn’t intended to be a phone

My PC has water cooling and 64 GB ram, and 32 GB vram. The video card has a half kilogram heat sink and two 10cm fans

Phones, even laptops, can’t compete, especially if they are running on batteries