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Does anybody else want the Linux community to remain small while still making progress (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by Artemis_Mystique@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I am personally against gatekeeping anything Including linux , but young naive me from 6 years ago felt this way, and I wanted to see if opinions had changed from back then

I asked this same question 6 years ago on Reddit just wanted to see if general opinion has changed now as Linux has arguably gotten way more mainstream

Edit: Progress meant 3rd party hardware and software support, innovation etc. I decided to rerun this question because of the new discourse surrounding LLM use in the kernel; the pretext being a smaller community would have easily taken a binary decision regarding the matter, for better or worse

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[–] eremophila@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm guessing a downvoted post is a lot less likely to be viewed.

[–] strawberry_enjoyer42@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Yeah, maybe the poll should be on the comment.

[–] eremophila@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

I'm guessing some people thought it was, I downvoted both just to be safe ;)

[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

I would have done polls with StrawPoll. But be aware to enable voting for VPN users, as its disabled by default.

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Or use a different platform or wait for Lemmy 1.0

[–] strawberry_enjoyer42@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Or simply allow natural, full-fledged discourse occur, instead of attempting to simplify complex opinions into two numbers.

I don't like polls, much.

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Well said. And I found computer stuff rarely to be a yes/no thing in the first place. It's almost always a ...well, depends... where are we going with this?... there's ten puzzle pieces which fit here and they all come with consequences and side-effects and form a different bigger picture.

I get the questions, though. And the desire for there to be simple answers to things like, should I install CachyOS? Should I buy 32GB of RAM, put a web application firewall infront of my webserver... There's also a lot of opinions out there regarding those things.