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submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works to c/linux@programming.dev

EDIT (2025-12-19T09:08Z): Whoops! I totally didn't see that this had already been posted to this community ^[2]^. I didn't mean to repost it. My bad!

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  1. Type: Image. Title: "Traffic by Operating System". Publisher: ["Pornhub">"2025 YEAR IN REVIEW"]. Published: 2025-12-03. Accessed: 2025-12-16T23:00Z. URI: https://www.pornhub.com/insights/2025-year-in-review.
    • Location: §"Traffic by Operating System".
  2. Type: Post. Title: "Linux traffic has grown 22.4% in PH this year". Author: "maam" ("@maam@feddit.uk"). Publisher: ["sh.itjust.works">"Linux" ("!linux@programming.dev")]. Published: 2025-12-09T1;31:57Z. Accessed: 2025-12-19T09:10Z. URI: https://sh.itjust.works/post/51299445.
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[-] snooting@wetshav.ing 121 points 3 weeks ago

Is this how the world finds out that it’s finally the year of the Linux desktop?

[-] bigfondue@lemmy.world 76 points 3 weeks ago

We've got the gooners, we've won!!!

[-] towerful@programming.dev 24 points 3 weeks ago

Something about porn leading the way, something about DVDs winning, something about VHS winning.

All of that doesn't matter.
Because Linux desktop (in my experience, KDE Plasma and Wayland) along with distros that do sensible things (I use EndeavourOS btw) are just SO much better that Windows.
I only boot windows for software I have to run windows with fullscreen or GPU based software that doesn't exist on linux

[-] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 10 points 3 weeks ago

KDE Rocks

Go install it on old laptops, let people see and donate

[-] towerful@programming.dev 9 points 3 weeks ago

Wtf is GNU/Linux? You mean SystemD/KDE?

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[-] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 2 points 3 weeks ago

You think they're pleasuring themselves at their desktops?

[-] MotoAsh@piefed.social 4 points 3 weeks ago
[-] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 2 points 3 weeks ago

tbf I was being facetious. Something something ThinkPad

[-] HakunaHafada@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago

More like WankPad, amirite?

[-] AstaKask@lemmy.cafe 1 points 3 weeks ago

Main Beat-off Station

[-] Sims@lemmy.ml 32 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, I lost my girlfriend, so .. no judging please !

[-] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 40 points 3 weeks ago

Did you look at the last place you saw her?

[-] Makeitstop@lemmy.world 28 points 3 weeks ago

That's what he's doing.

[-] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

No, the Waffle House bathrooms are closed for cleaning

[-] SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago

You can use CTRL+R to search you command history. Much faster thst hitting the up arrow. I am sure she will turn up.

[-] SPRUNT@lemmy.world 26 points 3 weeks ago

The Steam Deck can run a browser, right?

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.org 4 points 3 weeks ago
[-] TacoSocks@infosec.pub 13 points 3 weeks ago

He implying people are using the steam deck to wank.

[-] olympicyes@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

They used to include Nintendo 3DS on the survey results. I can only think of one kind of PH user that would prefer Steam deck.

[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 25 points 3 weeks ago

THIS IS THE YEAR OF LINUX DESKTOP.

[-] horn_e4_beaver@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 weeks ago

This is the dawning of the age of aquarius

[-] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago

How much of that was furry porn?

[-] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 7 points 3 weeks ago
[-] protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago

gay furry porn

[-] cm0002@programming.dev 13 points 3 weeks ago

Sorry guys, it was just me

/Jk

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago
[-] pivot_root@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago

It doesn't work like that. They use the self-reported user agent from the web browser that is requesting the page.

[-] Willy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago

cool and all but what % of people watch porn on their “big screen”? hard for me to remember that last time I wanked it at a desktop. shit, it might have been at work which would require windows.

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[-] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago

22.4% of 5% base, so in actuality a 1% increase. While the title is technically accurate, it's very misleading.

[-] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 26 points 3 weeks ago

It's not at all misleading. That's how percantages work. It plainly says '+22.4%', which is fully factual and accurate. Your 'actual 1% increase' is a false statement. It's a 1 percentage point increase, which is completely separate from the regular percantage.

[-] FishFace@piefed.social 13 points 3 weeks ago

A percentage increase is a relative increase. The thing you're thinking of would be described as "percentage points".

It's somewhat misleading to talk about a large percentage increase on a small base, though.

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[-] dakoriki@sopuli.xyz 10 points 3 weeks ago

Well it is an increase of 22,4 percent but at the same time an increase of 1 percentage point. So both are correct. But as we know bigger number more better so thats what we got

[-] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I'm struggling to understand why you think the title is misleading. Could you elaborate on your rationale to help me understand? 🙂

Do you perhaps have an alternative title that you would suggest? Would you be satisfied by something like, for example, "Pornhub saw a 22.4% increase in Linux traffic (from [e.g.] 5% to ~6%) over 2025"?

[-] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago

Sure! As is currently written, it gives the first impression (to me, at least) that the traffic share of Linux has jumped from x% to (x+22)%. Now I understand that this is subjective, but I believe that's how many people would read it at first glance as well.

Again, there's nothing technically inaccurate about it, but the 22% number there is imo distracting and tends to lead to misunderstandings. I would personally write it as "Pornhub sees Linux traffic share increase from 5% to 6% (22.4% increase) over 2025"

[-] olafurp@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Nah mate, it's very much exactly what it says. A ambiguous statement would be "Share of Linux devices on pornhub grew by 22.5%" which could be either in relative or absolute terms. Traffic increase is pretty much number of requests made from a Linux machine grew by 22.5%.

[-] horn_e4_beaver@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 weeks ago

How else do we get the data to train our Language and Vision models?

[-] Deconceptualist@leminal.space 3 points 3 weeks ago

Sorry everyone, that was me.

Wait no, it was Sims, he already fessed up. Yep totally him and not me.

[-] Eh_I@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Weird tug of war

[-] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 2 points 3 weeks ago

Lots of pirating going on...

[-] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 weeks ago

Probably some data hoarders scraping that shit

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 3 weeks ago

sounds likely, since alot of PH thats been sanatized ends up on non-PH sites.

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.org 2 points 3 weeks ago

Would they identify as Linux though and not simply as Windows?

[-] Damage@feddit.it 2 points 3 weeks ago

Depends on the default use agent for yt-dlp I guess

[-] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 weeks ago

Also sometimes websites have a fallback for systems with weaker DRM

[-] Phegan@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

It's the year of the Linux desktop, baby. Been waiting 40 years for it. And will be waiting 40 more

[-] p000l@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Coomers! Assemble!

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