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Do the ARM, POWER/PowerPC, MIPS, or RISC-V architectures, also count, to this mystical, and seemingly gate kept definition, of the “Linux Desktop”?

Because when you write about about hardware manufacturers, and software vendors, “supporting” Linux - it is seemingly apparent, that “Linux”, consists of only computers of the “Intel” variety - from my experience.

I think parent may be more implying “living off the land” situations. Awk is ubiquitous, and part of the POSIX standard. Micro Python, not so much.

I’m a big fan of Forth, but it’s not available everywhere. One has to adapt.

Small, embedded, busybox systems - per the parent comment.

I agree entirely!

For many python users, it’s the only language they know. Often, they see programming in python, as part of their “identity” - so they’re overly invested in it, to the detriment of other wonderful languages, like awk.

I used to code perl myself, back in the day - but I came to appreciate the simplicity of awk, and now it’s one of my favourites. I no longer code perl, as a consequence, as I believe awk to be far more elegant! I wouldn’t have done so, if I was overly invested in being a “perl programmer”.