[Katsunami]

With regard to stupidity: I think the internet just exposes us to more people who actually don't know what they're doing.

Today I saw some people lamenting the fact that Linux _still_ isn't one of the top dog operating systems on desktops and laptops. "Everybody is denying the numbers", one said. "Linux runs on EVERYTHING but desktops and laptops, from phones to supercomputers!"

The one thing this guy forgets is:

- A phone runs Android. Yes, it has the Linux kernel under the hood, but nobody knows. For all intents and purposes, the OS is Android, not Linux.
- A supercomputer doesn't run an off-the-shelf Linux most of the time. The builders of the supercomputer for a distro such as Debian, Red Had/CentOS or whatever, strip it, rebuild it to their specifications, and write their own drivers. Maybe they even start from scratch, from the source code. Yes, the OS is Linux, but it's a specific version for that computer.

And the most important point:

- Linux isn't used on desktops or laptops by the average person not because of the fact that it's a bad OS (it isn't), but because it doesn't run the software the users want to run, or doesn't support the hardware users want to use.

Yes, that's not Linux's fault, but still. People use an operating system for the applications it runs and the hardware that is supported, not for the sake of running a particular OS. You first choose your applications, then you choose your hardware, and THEN you choose an operating system that supports both, and on a desktop and laptop, it often ISN'T Linux.

In short: people having an entire discussion about computers and operating systems without knowing what using a computer is really about: GETTING SHIT DONE.