One way of looking at this is windows has a virtual monopoly on desktop OS’s a better way is Unix like operating systems make up almost a third of all operating systems globally before considering servers.
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RIP FreeBSD. Wonder what the "Unknown" ones are though.
The browser were set to report a different OS, the few bank terminals still running OS/2, a few industrial PCs still running MS-DOS, etc.
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it makes sense since most germans care about their privacy
Eh, that's a bit of a stretch. There's more awareness by default here because of GDPR and such, but I wouldn't say people really care that much more here
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There's dozens of us! Dozens!
Anyone who has a list of argument that have proven to increase the popularity of Linux usage in countries? Example like Windows products are banned in China or similar.
Steam Deck has been cited by a number of articles.
Germans saw the swiss investing in open source software and decided they couldn't be left further behind. Long live open source Munich!
Didn't Munich famously switch back to windows?
FreeBSD went from 0.01% to 0% last month. 🪦
Sad story. Best OS I ever run was around 2002 NetBSD on a desktop. It is quite bad that Linux is the only viable player for an operating system on desktops/laptops. (With viable I mean has drivers for all of my my hardware and runs the software I need for personal and professional life.)
Redox looks like it’s up and coming, hopefully something useable pans out from it once cosmic is rolled out of alpha.
Microkernel is an uptime and security benefit on modern hardware.
I would be happy if something usable comes out of it. OTOH, the classical problem is and has always been driver support. I am not sure I like the plan of running a complete Linux as a subsystem for driver support, and I have doubts Redox will have native drivers for all hardware within the next decade.
"Unknown" is my favourite OS personally
100% probably some privacy protected flavor of Linux that doesn’t show up on whatever survey they used
Or just another user agent. Those things update so frequently, it's likely just some analytics that checks user agent.
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