Maybe younger people won’t appreciate this as much, having grown up when this weren’t so rare, but nothing quite illustrates to me how far Linux has come than browsing Amazon and seeing “Linux” listed as a first-class citizen on product images. Not buried in the details, not answered in a FAQ, but right there on the product image at the top of the listing. Many of you will remember having to dig through wikis and forums to uncover whether a product was compatible with Linux; and sometimes you still do.
This is only a USB device; it’d be more surprising if it weren’t Linux compatible… but that’s not the point; the point is that “Linux” is advertised at the top right there after Windows and before Mac OS or Android. That’s what still grabs me. Metrics and guestimates are great; in a capitalist world, it’s often what advertisements say that indicate a truer story.
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A lot of chinacrap on amazon had that for decades.
Saw it for all kinds of normal USB gadgets. Absolutely meaningless label.
Seeing Linux more in the wild is awesome and, not going to lie, I am a sucker for a seemingly useless LCD screen.
45 buckeroos does not seem too expensive for that.
Sadly it’s often just marketing. The amount of devices marketed for Windows/MacOS/Linux that runs barely if at all with shitty ported drivers is still much too high.
As is the amount of hardware perfectly supported by the Linux kernel for more than a decade yet not officially supported at all.
@cm0002 in 2008 you would not believe how difficult it was to get the tux logo on to the box.
Still proud.
