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| β | This comic references how {{w | + | This comic references how {{w|Linux}} builds overly focus on adding support and features that will not appeal to the majority of desktop computer and Linux users, and the general dismissive attitude of those who point this out. Cueball has created a patch that allows support for processors with 4,096 cores, even though most computers have only 8 cores or fewer. He considers this to be more worthwhile an endeavor than full-featured {{w|Adobe Flash|Flash}} support, and attempts to claim that coding for the latter is unnecessary, even though Flash was the most common way to present videos or animations on websites at the time when this comic was published. |
Ironically though, in the years since, there exist computer systems that have well over 4,096 cores, while Flash usage has dwindled to practically zero with even the company dropping official support by 2020, having been superseded by {{w|HTML5}}; therefore, with many of the world's datacenters - particularly supercomputers - running Linux, this means that arguably (and technically), Cueball is now more factually correct. | Ironically though, in the years since, there exist computer systems that have well over 4,096 cores, while Flash usage has dwindled to practically zero with even the company dropping official support by 2020, having been superseded by {{w|HTML5}}; therefore, with many of the world's datacenters - particularly supercomputers - running Linux, this means that arguably (and technically), Cueball is now more factually correct. | ||
