@fkamiah17 I see this all as a huge Stanford prison experiment. with all the consequences.

@cnx @terminaltilt you counted this yourself? I haven't such statistics from any serious and reliable sources.
Linux is about servers and embedded hardware, first of all. and that devices much more in number than end-user gadgets.
and once again: Linux is an operating system. the kernel. it does not deal with any SaaS or whatever. it provides HAL for user level software. and user level software may be whatever, but this is not "Linux".

@cnx @terminaltilt nope, you said "my personal cup of shit contains sugar" and that means "the most cups contain sugar". something like this. but I have experience with many Linux distros and builds and there's no SaaS anywhere. I can't even imagine where SaaS could be applied to Linux, because those are usually proprietary bullshit and Linux software is free in most cases, and has nothing to do with corps. moreover, you won't be able to install proprietary crap on most distributions because of plain incompatibility.

@cnx @terminaltilt now you switched to Google? tell me what Google and their services have to do wtih Linux? Linux does NOT offer any Google SaaS or whetever to their users. Linux is an operating system. it works with hardware, that's all. the rest is user level software and there're tens of major and minor distributions based on Linux with very different sets of packages and settings, from basic end user ready-to-go installations to higjly customizeable systems like Slackware or Gentoo, and they all are very different. so your claims about "Linux imposing something to users" are just senseless and groundless.

and I'm not "living in a bubble", I'm a professional developer and work with Linux for ages. I worked with Linux systems from tiny embedded devices to gross high-load servers with hundreds of CPU and terabytes of traffic. and I won't let you spread lies about it.

@cnx @terminaltilt >the majority of Linux systems force and trick its users to only know of SaaSS as the sole way to do things.
this is blatant lies. I'm not tolerant to lies.
there's no any SaaS that Linux distributies would mpose to users. I use Linux for ages, more than 25 years, and there's nothing that is imposed to users at all. user can choose any distributive he likes, any architecture and pick whatever packages he needs. or build his own distributive, like I do. total freedom of choice. I don't understand these strange, unproven and senseless accusations of Linux in some imaginary "SaaS dependencies".

@ninesigns @terminaltilt yeah, it really sounds like 10 years old kid. a mentally healthy adult person cannot say such a rubbish.

@cnx @terminaltilt I use Linux. and I have never ever used any SaaS.
and yes, it is Linux with only a very few GNU untils. because I can build Linux-based system without gnu utils at all. this is not important and does not have any special meaning,
really, I don't like it where GNU goes nowadays and prefer to avoid it, except, maybe GCC with is not ruined yet (but they try!).