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Linux has achieved a 3% desktop market share

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Re: Linux has achieved a 3% desktop market share

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Post by hysan »

hulitu wrote: post #17
MBCook wrote: post #4

> While someone may seem the figure modest, it signifies a growing acceptance and recognition of the power and versatility of Linux. Does it? It’s 3%. If it was 15% or 20% maybe you could say that. It’s less than “unknown” and less than ChromeOS which is just over 4%. If it wasn’t a round number, I don’t think anyone would ever write this article because the number is just too small. It’s nice that it seems to be gro…

Who uses ChromeOS ? Here in EU I haven't seen or heard anyone using this.

A lot of schools do.

Re: Linux has achieved a 3% desktop market share

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Post by mattnewton »

hulitu wrote: post #17
MBCook wrote: post #4

> While someone may seem the figure modest, it signifies a growing acceptance and recognition of the power and versatility of Linux. Does it? It’s 3%. If it was 15% or 20% maybe you could say that. It’s less than “unknown” and less than ChromeOS which is just over 4%. If it wasn’t a round number, I don’t think anyone would ever write this article because the number is just too small. It’s nice that it seems to be gro…

Who uses ChromeOS ? Here in EU I haven't seen or heard anyone using this.

Very common in schools in the US, because they are very cheap and easy to manage.

Re: Linux has achieved a 3% desktop market share

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Post by Retric »

hulitu wrote: post #17
MBCook wrote: post #4

> While someone may seem the figure modest, it signifies a growing acceptance and recognition of the power and versatility of Linux. Does it? It’s 3%. If it was 15% or 20% maybe you could say that. It’s less than “unknown” and less than ChromeOS which is just over 4%. If it wasn’t a round number, I don’t think anyone would ever write this article because the number is just too small. It’s nice that it seems to be gro…

Who uses ChromeOS ? Here in EU I haven't seen or heard anyone using this.

Everyone using Chromebooks?

It’s popular with schools etc.

Re: Linux has achieved a 3% desktop market share

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Post by bruce511 »

pjmlp wrote: post #15
ixaxaar wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> There was a chance with mobile phones to use and signal Linux, but that didn't happen either. What do you mean? Android is Linux!

Android uses the Linux kernel, with a Java/Kotlin userspace.

As RMS is quick to point out "linux" is only -ever- the kernel.

So yes, android is 100% Linux.

It is not Gnu/Linux though. Which is what the desktop folk are celebrating.

This is one case where the distinction actually is important.

Re: Linux has achieved a 3% desktop market share

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Post by [deleted] »

hulitu wrote: post #17
MBCook wrote: post #4

> While someone may seem the figure modest, it signifies a growing acceptance and recognition of the power and versatility of Linux. Does it? It’s 3%. If it was 15% or 20% maybe you could say that. It’s less than “unknown” and less than ChromeOS which is just over 4%. If it wasn’t a round number, I don’t think anyone would ever write this article because the number is just too small. It’s nice that it seems to be gro…

Who uses ChromeOS ? Here in EU I haven't seen or heard anyone using this.

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Re: Linux has achieved a 3% desktop market share

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Post by COGlory »

photonbeam wrote: post #18
genmud wrote: post #2

Probably 70 or 80% of cloud workloads are Linux, and like 60% of embedded devices, of which there are billions. And of those embedded/mobile devices, the rest will either be running iOS, vxworks, freertos or zephyr. I think the joke has always been "this is the year of Linux", but in all honesty... it's the decade of Linux. It's probably one of the few areas where there is growth in computing capacity and by far most…

Are there really 20-30% of cloud workloads not on Linux? What do they do? Who uses them?

I assume Microsoft SQL?

Re: Linux has achieved a 3% desktop market share

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Post by mcny »

photonbeam wrote: post #18
genmud wrote: post #2

Probably 70 or 80% of cloud workloads are Linux, and like 60% of embedded devices, of which there are billions. And of those embedded/mobile devices, the rest will either be running iOS, vxworks, freertos or zephyr. I think the joke has always been "this is the year of Linux", but in all honesty... it's the decade of Linux. It's probably one of the few areas where there is growth in computing capacity and by far most…

Are there really 20-30% of cloud workloads not on Linux? What do they do? Who uses them?

> Are there really 20-30% of cloud workloads not on Linux?

> What do they do? Who uses them?

I don't know about the percentages but there is at least one b2b e-commerce website application thing with the latest version built with ASP.NET MVC on dotnet 4.8 so it has to be on Windows.

It isn't "cloud" by any means but you can create an EC2 instance or an Azure VM or whatever and put Windows on it and run IIS and all those things.

That and I think on Azure, you can run things like Azure functions and Azure web apps on Windows. I also don't understand why people would pick Windows to run modern software where you have a choice.

Re: Linux has achieved a 3% desktop market share

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Post by mcny »

COGlory wrote: post #26
photonbeam wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are there really 20-30% of cloud workloads not on Linux? What do they do? Who uses them?

I assume Microsoft SQL?

> I assume Microsoft SQL?

Yes! Especially if your application is legacy/old and requires Windows anyway. I used to think why people would do that when you can dockerize SQL Server and just use Debian or Fedora or whatever but I once tried that on a legacy application and things... were not quite right.

It was easier to install on Windows than to debug the issue so I just let it go. I think things would be different if the code was new or I was familiar with it enough to anticipate how it could break in different ways. If the code/framework is new enough, it might be worthwhile diving into that rabbithole.

Re: Linux has achieved a 3% desktop market share

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Post by dev_tty01 »

hulitu wrote: post #17
MBCook wrote: post #4

> While someone may seem the figure modest, it signifies a growing acceptance and recognition of the power and versatility of Linux. Does it? It’s 3%. If it was 15% or 20% maybe you could say that. It’s less than “unknown” and less than ChromeOS which is just over 4%. If it wasn’t a round number, I don’t think anyone would ever write this article because the number is just too small. It’s nice that it seems to be gro…

Who uses ChromeOS ? Here in EU I haven't seen or heard anyone using this.

That’s the point. Hardly anyone uses Chrome OS, but it is still more than Linux.
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