As of today, DistroWatch.com lists 1,048 Linux distributions of which only 334 (or 31%) are considered active. New ones will arrive, then shut down. It has been like that for decades; back 20 years ago, people were saying "there is no need for new distributions, the developers creating ones should join existing projects, blah, blah, blah", and 20 years later nothing has changed.

It's human behaviour, nothing to do with Linux. Like it or not, new Linux distributions will keep appearing. Is it a bad thing? Not necessarily, I believe. It differentiates the open-source world from the proprietary one. There will always be just one Windows and just one MacOS. With Linux, you have options and that can only be a good thing.

When the kiwis were the top dogs in rugby, everything was great and New Zealand was a proud nation. As things stand now, well...

It's quite possible that the immigration trend SA --> NZ is about to get reversed. After all, who wants to live in a country with a second-class rugby team?

Real money??? Are you talking about the one that's losing its purchasing power by the minute?

We all make decisions about our financial future. You make yours, I make mine. Good luck with yours and your "real money".

What the hell is Facebook? Never heard of it...

You are correct, it's not quite the same. The stocks, supposedly, have value because they hold properties, for example. Still, the vast majority of "investors" don't care, they only care about the STOCK PRICE. Or do you disagree?

I am curious about that too. I guess we'll never find out the truth...

Ahh, because you offered an IMMENSE amount of arguments against... are your here to discuss or to insult?

I don't care if BTC hits $100,000 or $10,000,000.

Ahh, you do! If you didn't, you wouldn't be commenting here.

You ALSO sound like the fox who found the grapes sour...

Oh, here you are wrong... there is a utility unique to bitcoin. You can take it out of the country without anybody noticing (try that with gold or bank notes). It might not be useful to you, but it can be useful to tens of millions of others.

You sound like the fox that found the grapes "sour"...

You are right. Nowadays it's an "asset" (as they say) not a "currency". We need to adapt...

You are not wrong. I was a bitcoin believer in the beginning (believing that it was an excelent new form of money), but these days bitcoin looks more and more like a ponzi (depending on new buyers to increase the price). Mind you, it's the same with the stocks these days - few people buy company shares because they believe the company has a good business plan and will grow, most buy in the hope to be able sell to a bigger fool later. Who wants to work and create value when we can just click here click there and become rich?

You might be right (and bitcoin is a ponzi) or you might be not (and bitcoin is here to stay). A very strong opinion like this might not be the best attitude...

It must be comforting to exchange messages with all other losers, desperately wanting to confirm that YOU have always been right about crypto.