In Finland, Linux market share has jumped from 4% to 24% within the last 6 months.
That must be a mistake. Are there any Finish people on Lemmy? I'd like to know if they are observing this on the ground, because honestly, if every 4th person had Linux there it would be somewhat visible. Even non-techies in the family or friend circle would mention it or ask about switching to it, or there would be a popular store to buy stuff with linux pre-installed.
I'm obviously limited to my own bubble, but my friends / aquintances consist mostly of "tech aware" people and they have been getting cozy with Fedora and Linux Mint due to the BuyFromEU/BuyFromEurope movement.
I know from a few schools that they use ChromeBooks since corona pandemic (they were handing them to kids so everyone could equally attend remotely) and they just kept using them since they had them when they returned to classrooms. I don't know how widespread this is and don't know if chromebooks count towards linux desktop stats?
There seems to be some debate on whether we are counting Chromebooks as Linux.
the debate basically comes down to "technically linux" (ie, it runs on the linux kernal like chrome os and android) and "spiritually linux" (ie, you, the end user, are the ultimate owner of the hardware and the software that runs on it). i think if we're talking the latter chromeos belongs less than windows does. however for a stat collector this may be an impossible ask
for a stat collector this may be an impossible ask
I would put ChromeOS in it's own category just because it is so different than the other Linux variants, just as MacOS is so different than the rest.
Windows, Linux, MacOS, ChromeOS
Chromeos is counted seperatly with ~1,25%
Another finn chiming in, linux user for about 1.5 years. Another friend of mine started dual booting recently. Wouldn't say it's common to use Linux at all.
Sopuli.xyz is run from Finland, so probably yes.
That seems highly unlikely to me. Could a reason be website scrapers for AI using different user agents to prevent being blocked? The recent reports of different projects plagued by scrapers fit the timeline
If you read the FAQ, Statcounter detects and removes bot data.
Yeah i read that too. But how well is it working? I mean that’s what the news was all about the last few months. A lot off projects were having trouble blocking the bots because they were trying and succeeded to circumvent detection measures.
Wow, that’s crazy. Any particular reason for that?
Love for penguins
Linux has finally surpassed the "Unknown" category in the USA!
Got a chuckle out of me! Excellent work.
One in every 20 computers. Not too shabby.
Look at the computer to your left. Now look at the computer to your right. Now look at the computers in 18 other directions. ONE OF THOSE COMPUTERS IS A LINUX.
Looooooonix
No, Statcounter measures usage; not machines.
So the headline is a lie and it's not 5% of market share?
I think it is acceptably incorrect. Linux machines are everywhere, in a lot more things than what most are aware of. If you counted all "machines" in the virtual sense, that runs one of MacOS, Windows or Linux, I'd be surprised if there is more than 1% for MacOS and Windows combined.
Tux having fingers kinda creeps me out.
Fuck, is this AI again?
This is what slop looks like, yes.
Installing stuff needs to not be a hostile moonscape of cobbled instructions and deciphering terminal matrix-speak.
Double click to install for everything, good (as opposed to existent) GUIs for everything, one-click updates all in one place. Leave the obscure terminal stuff in forever, so the big dick terminal folk can clack away and do everything they want that way. No reason to remove any of it; it's an awesome option to have.
It's too difficult to recommend wholeheartedly on its own merits because of random 10,000% drops in usability. It's not super far from living up to its ideals more fully, though. Well...it feels that way to me, but maybe those problems don't make the amount of work to fix them obvious.
I'll never leave it because it's clearly the way to go, but with a little attitude solving, Linux could be the god damn best on every front, as opposed to "best overall mostly because the others are spying shitty money addicts trying to ruin your computer on purpose".
I understand that's how things are, but man, what a sorry state of affairs. CLIs used to be the ONLY way to use computers, and common people wrote programs all the time! It was part of normal school curriculum for fucks sake. My mom was required to learn BASIC in high school. Nothing even close to that now. Schools MAYBE have some intro programming elective, if they're lucky.
We've managed to deskill multiple generations of computer users, and it gets worse every single year. More and more people only understand to scroll and press big buttons, with cognition of any sort being completely absent. Just monkeys in a cage created by corporations. It's heartbreaking, really.
What don't you like about GUI package manager frontends? The Pop!_OS spin of GNOME software worked pretty good for me and so does the cosmic-epoch store they're working on. (Plus they both look good) Even downloading random .deb from the internet is only a double click away from being installed with Popsicle. Can't comment on non Debian based ones though
The best part of Linux is that it comes from servers/embedded
You don't need any specific software or GUI. It is modular and performant.
What's going on there? MacOS and OSX are counted separately.
You are delusional if you genuinely believe that link is stopping any AI scraper.
So are android and Linux.
It's just how the site does things.
It's probably all the AI web crawlers that have Linux userstringe
It tracks along the lines of all the other linux usage stats. The actual % is a bit different by the trends all show growth. PH released 5% linux usage on the desktop. US Gov released 5% linux usage on desktop. If it included web crawlers and AI scrapers the % would be like 80% since thats the majority of internet traffic.
I've seen a lot of machines running Linux in the last year or two
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