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[-] LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 102 points 3 months ago
[-] subtext@lemmy.world 43 points 3 months ago

We’re all Linux users on this blessed day

[-] deus@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago
[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 32 points 3 months ago

I am ALL Linux users on this blessed day.

[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 12 points 3 months ago

Is there a Ken M community on Lemmy?

[-] cheddar@programming.dev 7 points 3 months ago

i am ALL linux users on this blessed day :)

[-] kionite231@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 months ago

I am using BSD. Am I doing my part?

[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 20 points 3 months ago

Everyone using a free system is doing their part.

[-] Hupf@feddit.org 5 points 3 months ago
[-] gimmemahlulz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 months ago

Been doing my part since October last year, have no intention to stop. Linux is awesome!

[-] aStonedSanta@lemm.ee 7 points 3 months ago

Same. 4 Linux machines. Three newly. 😊👌

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 67 points 3 months ago

Yay! It's the year of the Linux desktop!

[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 36 points 3 months ago

Always has been.

[-] negativenull@lemmy.world 37 points 3 months ago
[-] jelloeater85@lemmy.world 34 points 3 months ago

How much of that is the SteamDeck?

[-] Vilian@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 months ago

Wasn't that site that claimed they don't count steam deck?, also, 90% of people only uses steam deck for gaming, not web browsing

[-] mindlight@lemm.ee 30 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I checked the stats for the last 4 years here and it looks really strange. Statistics isn't my thing... But it looks like it's wise to be cautious and not to fully trust the numbers.

Around the beginning of last year there was a huge dip in the Windows market share that seemed to be correlating with a peek in "unknown". Windows then catched up in a somewhat erratic matter.

Mac OS also shows a weird behavior. Starts at 16%, up to 21% and the down to 14% between October and November...

It's not likely that a huge number of people decided to buy a Mac and then trash it I've month later. Samr but opposite goes for the windows stats.

I think it looks like there is an uncertainty of more than the total market share Linux is shown to have..

Not saying that Linux isn't increasing on desktop market share. Just saying that numbers seen to have quite a bit error margin and to be cautious if referring to these numbers.

[-] KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world 25 points 3 months ago

ie - Linux has a 4.45% market share! (Margin of error +/- 6%)

[-] clubb@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)
[-] olafurp@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Maybe it's +/- 6% of 4.45%. Which would mean +/-0.3%

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[-] muelltonne@feddit.org 4 points 3 months ago

If it is counting website visits, I'm wondering how they are filtering out bots using selenium on a linux system to crawl their sites. That should be a huge amount of traffic

[-] drphungky@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Anyone using bots that are openly bots would be limiting their shit to robots.txt. Anyone who is out trawling the whole website is probably obfuscating what they're doing by spoofing new user agents.

[-] olafurp@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

I think a trendline would be nice here. I think the result will be roughly Mac -0.25%/y, Windows -1%/y and Linux +0.5% per year and unknown +1%/y.

I think however that just like 2024 that 2025 will be the year of the Linux desktop and adoption will start a steep climb up an S curve.

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[-] lolrightythen@lemmy.world 29 points 3 months ago

Next year, they'll be on that ballot,!

[-] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 months ago

I didn't know presidential threshold for OS is a thing.

[-] bastion@feddit.nl 3 points 3 months ago

Yeah. For now, though, you'll have to write it in.

[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 28 points 3 months ago

Is each Steam Deck counted as a desktop Linux machine whether or not it is ever used as one?

[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 19 points 3 months ago

The count is from web visits somehow, so I don't think so. You'd have to visit a web site that was contributing data for it to count.

[-] nickhammes@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

So every steam deck that visits the websites that track this counts? It's probably not many, but it's certainly likely there are a few counted.

[-] MikeOxlong@lemm.ee 11 points 3 months ago

I think so, yes.

[-] ohellidk@sh.itjust.works 22 points 3 months ago

Just wait until M$ makes windows a subscription model...

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It already is in the sense that you are expected to pay with ongoing access to all of your data.

[-] Localhorst86@feddit.org 16 points 3 months ago

Just two weeks ago, I switched over my main PC, my Laptop and my Lenovo Miix 2 to Manjaro Linux.

This was single-handedly my doing is what I am trying to say.

[-] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 4 points 3 months ago

I highly recommend avoiding manjaro like the plague, their team is incredibly incompetent (see: https://manjarno.pages.dev/ ), I say this as someone who has given people manjaro for years and regretted it, I was also their it person, manjaro regularly broke every few months and gave people a very bad taste of linux

for example, why are kernels given version numbers in packages? This caused 3 separate peoples computers to break multiple times. Everything good about manjaro comes from arch, everything bad about manjaro comes from the manjaro team.

Y’know how it’s not rolling release because they delay packages by 2 weeks? They actually do no testing in this time. How do I know this? They pushed an update that caused steam to uninstall your desktop environment. Famously covered by linus tech tips… this is something that should have easily been caught, and yet the two week window did absolutely nothing.

the truth is for manjaro there is no real usecase, there’s no set of desires that align with manjaro being the best choice for you. I am not asking you to switch away from manjaro, but I do not think we should ever recommend it to anyone, and on your next machine, I recommend trying the arch installer.

But if what you’re looking for is an easy pre-setup arch, use endeavoros

If you want something simple and up to date, use fedora kinoite

If you’re a power user and want to configure every little thing about their system, use arch or nixos

If you don’t care at all about updates and want the most rock solid system possible, debian.

[-] sysop@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Nice. I switched from Manjaro KDE to Manjaro XFCE. Check out Tilda - it's a drop down Quake style terminal, I use ctrl + ~ https://micg.net/the-way-it-should-be-manjaro-xfce-the-lightweight-linux-desktop/

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[-] Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Couple weeks ago switched to Mint on my main rig. Since then I also installed Linux on my wifes old laptop. It works great, runs fast and it was 99% a painless transition. With my Steam Deck thats 3 Linux devices in our household.

I wish I coud touch the win 11 on my work laptop as well.

Also fuck Microsoft.

[-] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 4 points 3 months ago

I highly recommend avoiding manjaro like the plague, their team is incredibly incompetent (see: https://manjarno.pages.dev/ ), I say this as someone who has given people manjaro for years and regretted it, I was also their it person, manjaro regularly broke every few months and gave people a very bad taste of linux

for example, why are kernels given version numbers in packages? This caused 3 separate peoples computers to break multiple times. Everything good about manjaro comes from arch, everything bad about manjaro comes from the manjaro team.

Y’know how it’s not rolling release because they delay packages by 2 weeks? They actually do no testing in this time. How do I know this? They pushed an update that caused steam to uninstall your desktop environment. Famously covered by linus tech tips… this is something that should have easily been caught, and yet the two week window did absolutely nothing.

the truth is for manjaro there is no real usecase, there’s no set of desires that align with manjaro being the best choice for you. I am not asking you to switch away from manjaro, but I do not think we should ever recommend it to anyone, and on your next machine, I recommend trying the arch installer.

But if what you’re looking for is an easy pre-setup arch, use endeavoros

If you want something simple and up to date, use fedora kinoite

If you’re a power user and want to configure every little thing about their system, use arch or nixos

If you don’t care at all about updates and want the most rock solid system possible, debian.

[-] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Oh look how awesome windows 11 is going! Let me drag this Linux factoid onto my edge presentation, no I mean my power point that I have running on edge. I mean the edge in this teams running power point from this remote desktop running on edge thru a teams behind a VPN under an edge running power point running edge in teams running.....10 years later.....fuck this shit! I'm running Linux!

[-] Localhorst86@feddit.org 6 points 3 months ago

Just say that you enjoy edging, we don't judge.

[-] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Is that when you come closer and closer but you never come?

[-] mysticalone@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Don't pretend you don't know the definition after repeating edge so many times

[-] Localhorst86@feddit.org 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

come closer, and maybe i'll tell you.

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[-] theyllneverfindmehere@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago
[-] Brickardo@feddit.nl 4 points 3 months ago

Has anyone ever tried to carry out a stochastic analysis of the data? I'd never thought about it, but the webpage's way of representing the data makes it seem like we're watching the stock market.

[-] Kerb@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 3 months ago

$tux to the moon 🚀🌕
im gonna yolo my entire portfolio on deep otm $mint calls

puts on $win

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