• BitingChaos@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    What am I missing?

    Linux has been out in the open and running shit since the 1990s.

    How exactly is that a secret?

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      1 year ago

      It’s not, but it gets clicks.

      If anything, vxworks is the secret one. Huge numbers of embedded devices run vxworks, but the only people who work with it are embedded systems developers.

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      1 year ago

      Keep in mind there’s everyone not in tech. Loads of people probably use their iPhone and MacBooks, or windows and android, or some other combo - might never even look up a single Linux distro, or think about what servers are.

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        1 year ago

        Right. But most people who subscribe to a Linux community on Lemmy have probably heard of Linux before.