Finally the year of GNU/Linux desktop 🍾
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I hate that there is such a discrepancy between the amount of Linux server implementation and desktop usage. I'm hopeful for the future though, I've been noticing Linux has been getting more attention.
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I question the methodology here. The same site lists Linux desktop share at 2% in my country specifically. It feels like if it was that high you’d see it on people’s laptops more in coffee shops and what not… but I’ve yet to see a single other person using Linux on the desktop.
I know most of that 4% is in India… but still feels like it should be more ubiquitous if the number is that high.
2% is still very low, and thats not necessarily spread evenly throughout different areas/communities.
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Sorry guys, this is just me with a basement full of computers running Linux.
The Linux phone has hit 0.01% oooof
I'm calling to arms linux desktop users to dip their toes into this space as we need all the support we can get
As much as I'd like to use a Linux phone, it's simply not feasible for almost everybody at the moment.
What do people user their phone for?
- Private conversations
- Banking
- All kind of apps
Linux phones, at the moment, are way behind Android/iOS in terms of security and, since privacy requires security, also in privacy.
Even stock Android has so many more security features, that it's not even close. Verified boot, exploit mitigation, (working) app sandboxing and so on. Not even speaking of specialized projects like GrapheneOS.
Even if the app ecosystem was there and the OS mature, I'd never run my banking through a Linux phone at the moment.
Also its just hostile hardware. I can run Linux on any PC I own. Only a few phones support installing it and have bad drivers even if.
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Where's the party?
I'm waddling over!
Steam decks ?
Probably a good chunk of it but admittedly it helped me feel confident in using Linux as my daily driver on my desktop. Nothing drives adoption like being able to play video games.
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This site is using stats based on browser's users agent string, very unreliable source of imformation today. Please stop celebrating when it have an anomaly and do it's temporary spike up or down every couple of months.
Linux is in fact rising, like all desktop OSes besides Windows, because Windows is losing market share. But celebrating stats from this site is not worth it.
Librewolf uses windows UA to avoid fingerprinting so yes, that is not reliable method.
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Bla, Bla, Bla Linux market share is spiking.
That's what what I got out of your extremely large comment. Time to go back to my party
I ain't reading that essay
Didn't we hit 3% in January this year? At this rate well reach 350% by EOY!
I know it's a joke, but where did you get that number? If it's at 3% in January and 4% in February. Either it's a flat 1% increase/month or an increase of 33%. How else can it be interpreted?
How else can it be interpreted?
Exponential increase that has been slow for decades, but is just now starting to ramp up?
Sure, but the question was how they got to the number. If it was a random big number, then fine, that answers my question, but I was just wondering if there was a reason behind it. Usually when people make that joke they just purposefully misinterpret the trend which is why I went for the 1% or 33%
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I’m part of that I just upgraded two of my pc’s to Linux.
It's so good that it counts as an upgrade.
I just installed WSL so I can learn Linux before I totally get rid of windows. If anyone has any suggestions for windows users learning Linux I will read them!
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