You know, I do wonder how many of these statistics are influenced by Linux users tendancy to use adblockers and block tracking. Linux could be more popular than it looks.
Also, they should tell us how much of that increase is due to the Steam Deck. :P
True, btw I am on Windows 10 Chrome 😉
Found the closet Arch user
An adblocker does not hide the os
Unfortunately, due to the constant willful or untested shenanigans of various website I have set up all my system’s Firefox profiles to spoof by default its user agent (and other JavaScript properties) as Windows 11, x86_64, Firefox LTS (even if I use latest, Aurora or beta). Some blantant recent example: YouTube uses lower quality options on browsers running on Arm-based systems — misreporting as an x86 CPU appears to be a widespread browser fix
Doing so has helped me and many friends/family I switched to a flavor of Linux (mostly Mint, but sometimes LMDE or Ubuntu or specific requirements/demands) avoid numerous dumb problems.
Even on mobile sometimes UX breaking issues creep up.
Do we really want to be bigger anyway? I kind of like where Linux as a desktop isn’t really big enough for all the scammers and malware makers to care.
(And I know it’s huge for servers and malware also targets that, but they are usually maintained by professionals, not your parents that would probably run every shell script they are offered as help)
If Linux would become the biggest desktop os you are going to find so much more bad advice whenever searching for help online. I wonder if the nice people we have now are really ready for when the terrible people invade the community.
Do we really want to be bigger anyway?
YES. It needs more market share to influence companies financially to make products for it.
It’s truly starting to make inroads recently, but it still has a ways to go.
I kind of like where Linux as a desktop isn’t really big enough for all the scammers and malware makers to care.
It’s also not big enough for gaming companies to truly care, unfortunately.
Thankfully valve does, linux gaming’s gotten to a really great state in the last few years.
Perhaps a little lesd nice for those of us already using linux, but definitely better for the majority of people for getting less scammed by big corps. But one plus for us would be better support for apps and games that are still mostly or exclusively on other OSes.
Yeah kind of partially agree but not entirely sure what to say man. I’ve had my windows machine and my Linux box hacked in the past, didn’t do much besides ruin my ability to do my homework and general productivity, so I can’t say much.
I would prefer there to be more actual meaningful stuff out there for there to be hacked and or made different but a lot of the time almost all complex systems compound into or towards static failure, just look at the USA with being a military hegemony like Sparta or China slowly running out of people to sell junk to, the big oil companies slowly trying to micromanage the shift to renewables, people that believe in conformity, confucianism and “the myth of stability” ironically usually slow down all of societies progress rather than supporting an actual stable diffusion of change
So many distros, getting bigger overall with maybe one popular linux distro doesnt have the issue when there are so alternatives.
.2 to 3.6%
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Literally all Steam Decks
Praise Gaben
That is what we like to call a “gateway drug”, first they try out an Android, then “just a taste” of Steam Deck, and next thing you know they’re installing arch btw on their grandparents’ computers
Next thing you know they are looking at packages compile in Gentoo on a Friday night.
Next thing Gentoo is too easy so they spend a week setting up Linux From Scratch
I hate when people say “oh we had 100% growth!” Ignoring the fact they went from 4 to 8 clients. Meanwhile the one that only shows 0.5% growth considers 8 people a rounding error.
There’s liars, damn liars and statisticians.
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1102/
I hate when people respond to a post with a little anecdote that is completely irrelevant to the original post.
I’ll feed the troll… it’s very relevant with the bottom part of the graphic. It’s touting that it’s got the biggest increase of traffic change at ~32%, however overall it still only has a 3.2% share. That ties in exactly what what I’m stating and the xkcd that was posted too. There was nothing anecdotal or that was irrelevant in my post.
Ignoring the fact they went from 4 to 8 clients.
You think the 3.2% is on the order of single digits of machines? You think 3.2% market share is 8 people?
Obviously you don’t. It’s 10s of thousands of machines and you exaggerated the actual situation so far it no longer made any sense.
Dozens of us! Dozens!
Unless the number of GNU/Linux maintainers also matches the growing userbase, we’re heading towards a world of pain.
Devs overrun by unhelpful bug reports, scammers and malware abound, forums stretched beyond capacity by the exact same queries.
If PC Linux can be monetized, it will be.
Year of the Steamdeck. Praise Gaben!
2024 will be the year of the GNU/Linux desktop!
As will be every year after that
If you combined the ages of my children it still wouldn’t be enough time to the first time I heard this.
Because of your newborn twins, right?
Nah, it was all me. All of it.
Just found another PC in the dump and installed Linux on it. That makes 1,984
Linux users are coming
what is other? kaios, postmarketos?
The BSDs for one
I meant for mobile
Year of the windows phone baby!
Is Blackberry still around? Could include that if they haven’t switched to Android.
I assume it’s mostly not detected correctly
More importantly, it’s the year of Windows 11… also known as the Inadvertent Year of the Linux Desktop.
Switched a few months ago. No regrets.
