> On Jan 26, 2022, at 2:31 PM, Paul Stenquist <pnstenqu...@comcast.net> wrote: > > I don’t know much about a Linux but I would guess it’s only rarely updated. > If it had all the capability you need, you wouldn’t have to worry about the > policy of other OS providers. > > Paul
Software on a Linux system is not provided from a monolithic source. Pretty much every program has people who maintain it, and since for the most part the source code is published, if there is a problem pretty much anyone theoretically has the opportunity to fix a bug. As such, updates and patches happen constantly, though most people get them through the people who publish their preferred distribution. As to Linux, the operating system itself, 96% of the world’s top 1 million servers run Linux. Looking at this article: https://hostingtribunal.com/blog/linux-statistics/ • In 2021, 100% of the world’s top 500 supercomputers run on Linux. • Out of the top 25 websites in the world, only 2 aren’t using Linux. • 96.3% of the world’s top 1 million servers run on Linux. • 90% of all cloud infrastructure operates on Linux Android runs on Linux and has 75% of the mobile OS market 85% of all smartphones are based on Linux. In short the only thing I currently need that I can’t do on Linux is run Lightroom, and now I suppose scrivener. Unfortunately, that accounts for a tremendous amount of my time using a computer and there aren’t any programs I’ve found that work quite as well for doing what I need to do. With a 12 year investment in my lightroom catalog I’m kind of locked into using it for a while. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com. sent from ret4est -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
