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Linux Breaks 5% Desktop Share in U.S., Signaling Open-Source Surge Against Windows and macOS (www.webpronews.com)

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[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Are they counting Steamdecks?

Or what is the scope?

[-] fading_person@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

They count based on useragent info from accesses to websites using statcounter analytics.

[-] apotheotic@beehaw.org 3 points 1 week ago

Presumably steamdecks are heavily underrepresented in that, because I can't imagine more than a quarter of steamdeck users are even going into desktop mode, much less launching a browser

[-] TeddE@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Unless they track Steam Deck specific fingerprints the OS may be classified as Arch, but either way: yes, every Steam Deck counts as a Linux system out of the box.

[-] Lemminary@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yup! Just installed it on my laptop after several tries running into bugs during install. My desktop is next, but I'm not ready for the headaches of figuring out a dual-boot yet. I'm mentally preparing for it, though, so fingers crossed.

So I might as well ask beforehand: Does anyone have a preferred tutorial for it? I prefer a recommendation to going in blind.

[-] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I don't think it needs a tutorial, it's automatic. but some advice:

don't delete any partitions, shrink them if you need space. who knows if windows needs it to boot
either have 2 ESP partitions (requires motherboard support), or use a different disk for linux. if windows and linux share an ESP, windows updates can somehow fuck up the linux boot chain, which is wonderful because everything is placed in per-OS directories. you don't have to order from amazon
disable fast startup in windows (control panel, energy settings, what does the power button do menu), because it's hibernation every time
disable hibernation, or handle with care. you shouldn't boot linux while windows is hibernated: changes the ESP and windows filesystems might haven't been written completely, also windows will do unpredictable things if these get changed while it's hibernated. linux kernel updates and efibootmgr changes could also make windows to drop its hibernated state and not load it
if you use multiple disks, consider creating a linux filesystem there. ext4, btrfs, whatever, former is fine if you don't know the difference. ntfs filesystems can be accessed well (except symbolic links?), but it's slow, cpu-heavy because of an implementation detail that makes it maintainable