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[–] StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

You know people would just.... Use other operating systems, right? The march of Technology doesn't just halt because Linux never got invented, it likely would have just ended up with smaller machines using a stripped down form of windows

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, I know that. It would probably be BSD though. Doesn’t change what I said though. They’d be ignorant of whatever else it was. It definitely wouldn’t be Windows though. Proprietary systems would never work for things like server farms that have 500,000 servers.

[–] StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

What are you basing this off of? The alternate histories stock market history?

I promise you if Linux wasn't invented we would have made another niche product or adapted what we have lol, the world doesn't need to revolve around Linux

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 2 points 41 minutes ago

I’m basing off of the fact that Microsoft doesn’t even use Windows for their server fleets. Windows makes a terrible server.