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0 points__MatrixMan__5y ago0 comments

Is the userbase size relevant?

I'm not saying "I have more tools than you have cars" because I think it makes me win at something. I'm trying to point out that the ecosystems are so different that it's hard to quantify which side has "more".

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dmitriid5y ago

> Is the userbase size relevant?

Yes

> I'm trying to point out that the ecosystems are so different that it's hard to quantify which side has "more".

No. In response to "there's 100 times more software in Windows." you started speaking about dockerhub and git. That does not encompass all software, especially software that is required by non-programmers.

__MatrixMan__OP5y ago

Let L be the set of all software for Linux and W be the set of all software for Windows.

If there is a subset of L that is larger than W, then L itself is also larger than W.

I was proposing that if you count every image, or every repo, then dockerhub-only or the GitHub-only subsets of L might be larger than W because the effort of creating an additional windows project is much greater than the effort of creating an additional Linux project.

dmitriid5y ago

The amount of software in dockerhub and github is entirely irrelevant when you just for a second stop considering just the subset "developers who use linux-compatible tools".

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dmitriid5y ago

> Is the userbase size relevant?

Yes

> I'm trying to point out that the ecosystems are so different that it's hard to quantify which side has "more".

__MatrixMan__OP5y ago

Let L be the set of all software for Linux and W be the set of all software for Windows.

If there is a subset of L that is larger than W, then L itself is also larger than W.

dmitriid5y ago

The amount of software in dockerhub and github is entirely irrelevant when you just for a second stop considering just the subset "developers who use linux-compatible tools".

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse