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		soared on Feb 13, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Unilever threatens to pull its ads from Facebook a... I'd say that's undoubtedly not true. Hn loves open source, locally hosting software, customizable software, etc. The general public doesn't even know what open source is, prefer web apps that just work, and prefer OS X/windows to Linux. Hn doesn't predict market desires at all, its just a smaller subset of the same market.

paulddraper on Feb 13, 2018 | [–]

Is 2018 the Year of the Linux Desktop?

cs702 on Feb 13, 2018 | [–]

My understanding is that there are a lot of early adopters under 25 on HN.

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