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The 2025 Wrapped: Self-Hosted Software Launches is quite a list.
Users will stop brown-nosing developers with ‘appreciation’ posts and begin regularly donating to projects instead
In addition, users will stop making “I’ve donated $X to this project!” posts on Reddit for karma. Just donate and STFU. I donate to hospitals yearly but you don’t see me going onto their Facebook page to tell everybody how much I donated.
- Users will stop referring to non-containerized applications as “running on bare metal”
TBH its not the users fault, the documentation is always like (click here for docker install instructions, or if you don’t want docker click here for bare metal instructions) and the latter is just apt get and some config edits.
Ugh really? I haven’t seen that myself but that’s frustrating.
What are we supposed to call it? Genuine question
Non-containerized applications. Not in a container. It’s not complicated. Running “on bare metal” sounds cool but it’s a wildly inaccurate description. Containerized applications run on the system natively just like non-containerized applications. So if one of them runs “on bare metal” then then others do as well.
But historically “on bare metal” is used for embedded or micro-controllers where you don’t have an OS.
Bare metal is commonly used to describe server OS installs that are not virtualized and are installed directly to the hardware. People are most likely conflating containerized and virtualized.
Aye - that’s another reasonable use of the phrase.
“Users will stop suggesting Linux as a realistic alternative to Windows for non-technical users”
Then their users will simply be wrong…
Non-technical users don’t have any problems with Linux as an alternative. They don’t know nor care what is running on their PC as long as they can click on icons opening the handful of basic programs they actually use.
It’s the pseudo-technical users that think their constant MS indoctrination means they are the pinacle of experienced PC users that are the problem.
Non-technical users don’t have any problems with Linux as an alternative. They don’t know nor care what is running on their PC as long as they can click on icons opening the handful of basic programs they actually use.
My lady friend has got to be the most tech illiterate person I’ve met. In as much as I try to educate her, she’ll end up saying ‘I don’t care, just make it do what it do.’ She had an old laptop and was getting frustrated because Windows has a tendency to get junked up with crap, and things start not to function properly. So I swapped her Windows OS for Mint. It didn’t phase her a bit, and it really wasn’t much issue with ‘learning’ a new OS. Now, she doesn’t use the cli and asks me to install something, but if there’s an icon, she’s good to go. She did mention that it seemed a bit more snappier, which is probably due to the way Linux addresses RAM and resources.
I recommend Linux to a lot of normal, everyday, people, I’ll even set them up with a live thumbdrive to test drive and see if it meets their expectations. I think the hesitancy for most people is that they grew up using Windows, and so anything that isn’t Windows seems scary. There can be a learning curve if you want to pop the hood and get into the guts, but for the most part the people I recommend Linux to, take to it rather well.
