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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 andirk »

fingerlocks wrote: post #217
lopkeny12ko wrote: post #158

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> made by a company who makes more money off Linux than anything else, is the largest corp contributor to Linux, and has far more Linux machines internally than Windows ones, and hires software developers who do not develop for Windows. Huh? This is...totally wrong. Software devs at Microsoft are supplied with Windows machines by default, a lot of software is built on Microsoft-specific technologies like C#, and most…

You might be surprised. My team only uses MacBooks at Microsoft. It’s true that I was forced to receive a PC, but it sits in a drawer collecting dust and only gets booted up when compliance throws a tantrum.

Can you elaborate on this? I have always been curious when a group works on an inferior (in terms of popularity!) product such as Ask Jeeves how they themselves work day to day in the workplace. So you worked for Microsoft and didn't use their flagship product?

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Post by boudin »

wheels wrote: post #223
einpoklum wrote: post #219

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> Releasing binaries is still a PITA for Linux. Is it really that bad? I mean, many small FOSS programs provide packages for multiple distributions. Are they busting their balls building that stuff?

Most of the time those packages, or the build files for them, are contributed by the distributions themselves, or avid users of those distros. (Reference: I have multiple software projects I've created that are a part of every Linux distribution. I've never packaged any of them myself.) Even big enterprise companies usually work directly with the distros under NDA, and the distros produce the packages. That works for…

What about distributing via Flatpak? (honest question, I'm curious to see if it actually help lowering the cost of distributing apps for Linux)

Re: Linux has achieved a 3% desktop market share

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Post by DeathArrow »

taneliv wrote: post #143
borissk wrote: post #77

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A lot of people are locked-in Windows, but as Microsoft more and more ruins the OS by pushing advertisement, telemetry, slow cloud services, new versions of apps optimized for those who don't know how to use a computer, rather than experts - there will be plenty of users switching to Linux.

Heavily doubt that those would make people switch. Maaaybe, if their social circle already uses Linux. However, make the next Minecraft, Fortnite or Roblox work only (or considerably better) on Linux desktop[ ], and you will suddenly gain a lot more new users. Some of whom will stick around, since all their other apps work the same in the browser. [ ] Whatever that term means, even the article makes a distinction bet…

>However, make the next Minecraft, Fortnite or Roblox work only (or considerably better) on Linux desktop

And lose lots of money in that process. :)

And what Linux OS should you target? Ubuntu, Fedora, Linux Mint, Arch, Android? Target KDE or Gnome? Or maybe XFCE? X Windows or Wayland? Use ALSA, Pipewire or Pulse Audio? Bionic or glibc?

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Post by actualwitch »

jacknews wrote: post #248
jamil7 wrote: post #52

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What new limitations has macos added?

It's not all necessarily new, but for example on every update I seem to get 'Operation not permitted' somewhere new. Then why can't I change the spaces animation (turn it off)? Windows snapping without leaving a gap on the edge of the screen? Etc, etc. And are they now doing scans for copyright-infringing media and so on - I wouldn't be surprised. I'm an adult. It's my computer. Let me do what I want with it.

> why can't I change the spaces animation (turn it off)?

You can turn on "reduce motion" and it will replace it with a much simpler fade in.

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Post by leshenka »

sersi wrote: post #65

Seems that this website blocks any access from HK completely through cloudflare... Cloudflare making it easy to block entire countries, allow people to be lazy in protecting their websites and goes completely against the open web. Of course I could use a vpn but it's getting tiring that I have to do so more and more often.

I'm used to government blocking websites and I see this kind of blocking as pure evil. VPN almost never turns off on my phone and my computer. That is, until I moved to a different country

What I can't understand is why people are willing to shut their websites from like half of the world. Especially Linux bloggers. Open source, "free as in freedom", right? These people should fight practices like that, not follow them.

Amazingly, the country I'm in right now is blacklisted on this website.

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Post by randomdata »

dev_tty01 wrote: post #30
hulitu wrote: post #17

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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.

ChromeOS is Linux.

It is not GNU, though. Perhaps we are actually trying to measure the prevalence of GNU on the desktop?

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Post by jacquesm »

GranPC wrote: post #262
jacquesm wrote: post #237

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It's not just loss in performance, it's also loss of your data and control over that data.

This is not inherent to web apps though, is it? Free software web apps without vendor lock-in exist.

They do, but they are the exception, not the rule. The bulk of the free software that I use I use locally, in fact I don't think I use even a single package that is a free software web app that is operated by some third party and if it were then I probably would try to find an alternative.
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