Good points. The challenge is, given Linux' fragmented nature, presenting

Companies selling boxes don't want to have to mess with OS UI design, they want one that user' can use out of the box and runs the programs their customers want on their boxen. Linux' strength is a san open source software people are free to adapt it to their needs, but that is also a weakness when it comes to marketing because it fragments the market and their isn't a consistent desktop GUI or interface standards. A lot of the stuff just isn't polished, even though it works fine, which is a challenge when it comes to mass marketting. People want shiney.

Ecxept lawyers have been pretty good at ensuring only lawyers can practice law and give legal advice; and while they will no doubt adopt AI to automate tasks low level staff do now, I doubt AI will be a big threat to them like it will for other occupations; rather it will be a tool to be more efficient whithout billing less.

Most human call centers I have had to contact aren't much better, just some person making a tiny wage reading from a script. Not there fault, it's just companies want the lowest price so that's what they get.

Yea, or maybe some sort of induction motor to create a counter rotation?

I have also been WFH for years before covid. I don't believe my circumstances are the same as everybody's, but I do know I am far from the only person whose duties almost exclusively involve working with people and things that are in another region anyway.

An axially mounted camera would not ned to spin. Not invisible, but a much smaller thing to spot.

If it can be made large enough to carry explosive charges it would be useful on the battlefield. You might hear it but have a hard time spottig it until it goes boom.

Put another way, employers who gave everyone an effective raise due to exigent circumstances and suffered no harm as a result are now mystified as to why their employees are reluctant to accept an effective pay cut now for no apparent benefit. Given the latter part, they rightly suspect some sort of malfeasance somewhere in management.

Workers want or even need a cost of living adjustment. Employers do not want to and may not be able to afford to increase payroll. For that reason, the COL increases are often several years in arrears as it is. WFH gives the employees an effective raise by eliminating their commute costs and an opportunity to save even more by living somewhere with a lower COL.

As an additional incentive, the employer saves on office space.

On the other hand, WHF was a win-win for employers too. The employees got an effective raise by lowering their cost of living and a reduction in unproductive daily aggravation and wasted time. The employer didn't have to actually pay them any extra to make that happen and could even save on expensive office space. It just wasn't a win for the managers who could no longer hide how bad they were at their jobs.

Perhaps not narcicism so much as short-sighted self interest. Either way, it would be in the company's interest (and the shareholders) to give THEM the heave-ho and leave the workers remote. The workaround for their ineffectiveness costs millions a year.

I understand your sentiment, but that'd a lot like claiming UNIX has X percent because the Mac is a certified UNIX system. ChromeOS is pretty far from Linux in terms of how it is presented to the user and most of the users have no idea it's Linux:Inside. They're not primed to keep using ChromeOS or graduate to Linux, they are likely looking for Windows or a MAC as their first real computer.

However, they are very cryptic with brevity seemingly valued over understandability. Once you learn them they are useful but most users don't want to use and memorize a command line, that is to much like the boomers' C:\> prompt.

I agree. They are really designed for a very specific use case and not really a mainstream computing product.

While it may be the year Linux grows more than before, I think it still faces several challenges:

• Just because an LLM can suggest a solution doesn't mean a non-technical user can implement it, or that the LLM doesn't break something in the process.
• Until a non-neckbeard/ultranerd can walk into a store and buy a Linux machine they are never likely to even know it exists
• Being better in the eyes of techies doesn't trump 'it's what everyone uses" for the average user
• Usable enough translate to it's frustrating and doesn't have the software I want to use for an average user