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Easy karma on HN. We have these posts every couple of days.

Oh, damn!

I bet 2027 will be the year when writing code by hand will be (re)discovered.

Hopefully.

Ah, so karma is a thing on HN as well. That would explain it.

Since 2001 I've used Red Hat, Mandrake, Slackware, Ubuntu, and Mint. I got rid of them at the first available opportunity. Elon Musk himself couldn't pay me enough to switch to Linux.

Confession: I got curious and tried Mint and ended up liking it. It's a lot better than it was a decade ago!

For some reason, there's a huge amount of Hacker News readers who are still full-time Windows users. With the forced migration to Windows 11, I guess a lot of them are now not only trying out Linux for the first time (as a desktop system), but also for some reason going for Arch derivatives, which is always fun to see a beginner mess with LOL

It's been Eternal September for quite a few years now.

Today is the 11820th of September 1993.

Desktop Linux is still very niche, even in technical communities like HN.