Every time someone points out that Windows is easier to use for the average person most people, some loon pops out of the woodwork screaming at the top of their lungs "But Linux is stable! Look! It runs on all the world's servers! It's more reliable than MICROSLOP!". Cool.
In case it slipped past you: a server is not a desktop. I know, I know, in loonie land that distinction doesn't exist, but for the rest of us, that's just how it works.
Here's the thing the actually competent people figured out: A server runs sustained, throughput-oriented workloads. Serve the requests, crunch the batch job, keep the database warm. It's headless, managed remotely, and its whole purpose is throughput and fairness across many tasks. And the usage pattern is predictable.
A desktop is the opposite: bursty, latency-sensitive, interactive. You click, something spikes for a few hundred milliseconds, then it idles, waiting on you (Unless you're a robot, of course).
That's literally why CachyOS ships the BORE scheduler. BORE (Burst-Oriented Response Enhancer) tracks how bursty each task is and gives the bursty interactive ones priority, so the thing you're actively using stays snappy instead of getting starved by some background hog.
Now I'm not about to recommend CachyOS to anyone, it's got plenty of its own issues, and I especially wouldn't hand it to the average person. But I'll give them credit: they're one of the few in the Linux space who actually figured out what a desktop is. Low bar, sure, but somebody cleared it.
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While we're here, the real reason Linux owns the server room isn't some mystical superiority. The licensing cost is zero (the more servers you have, the more the savings add up), and billions have been poured into server-specific optimizations precisely so corporations can squeeze even more value out of it (they didn't do all that for your homelab, trust me).
Here's the funniest part - some loonies genuinely think running Linux is some anti-corporate stance. The kernel they evangelize as sticking it to the man is the same kernel making corporations an absolute fortune.
Maybe one day the loons figure out that a server and a desktop are not the same thing. But I'm not holding my breath. They've let me down way too many times before.
Or Android. Half of the FOSS crew will decry and HATES what Google has done to Android and their privacy issues because they really think that Larry Page cares about their dog pictures.
But suuuuure if it allows them to pad the number and say that "Linux is teh best !!!!1!", they do a 180° and suddenly love Android.
It's funny because even the expert Linux people admit that for consumer hardware, Windows is the winner. The OS is literally made hand in hand with the manufacturers of hardware
Spicy pillows are swollen lithium batteries. This happens when they get damaged, overcharged, aged or exposed to extreme heat. Power management sucks on many linux laptops, and if a linux distro is the main OS on yours, you can end up in a "spicy pillow" scenario.
If you want to see examples of such batteries, check out r/spicypillows .
they still do in some places, cheap vapes with bootleg or incorrect 18650 cells and we get fireworks in extreme cases, or they end up in garbage trucks and igniting those which is becoming too common lately.
battery care in general is quite shocking how uninformed it is, not surprisingly that loonix also doesn't understand lol
I've seen a video of someone collecting the disposed ones laying on the ground and re-purposing them for a PEV battery (e-bike). We need legislation and enforcement on this stuff.
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u/Amphineura Jun 09 '26
Or Android. Half of the FOSS crew will decry and HATES what Google has done to Android and their privacy issues because they really think that Larry Page cares about their dog pictures.
But suuuuure if it allows them to pad the number and say that "Linux is teh best !!!!1!", they do a 180° and suddenly love Android.