I’ve heard & seen vinyl and linoleum used interchangeably over a lifetime, and I don’t believe the original recipe is still manufactured so far as I have seen.

Even if it is still being manufactured, the vast majority of people talking about linoleum seem to mean vinyl. I’m going with the average vernacular, and still stand by all my original points re: vinyl.

I haven’t seen the original form of linoleum made it installed anywhere on any jobsite I’ve ever worked.

I realize the term has been co-opted by the plastics industry, but if you’re specifying the original linseed oil recipe from the 1870s, you need to specify that.

Vinyl and linoleum have been interchangeable terms in modern parlance for several lifetimes at this point.

Hell no, it looks terrible so quickly. The patterns to make it look like “wood” or whatever are at most a millimeter deep, so enough usage and suddenly you have a worn out blank spot in your giant piece of shit plastic floor.

It outgasses forever, you’re funding the fossil fuel industry, it looks and feels like shit, and you’ll throw it out in 5-10yrs.

Tldr, fuck linoleum, it is inferior in all but one metric: water resistance.

Good stuff, thanks. Tricky problem to solve, generally speaking 😑

Sigh, openinsulin.org really needs to make faster progress.