The same people who believe these numbers also think open routers token measurements are indicative of total token demand - lol.
Linux desktop market share has hit over 10% in North America
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Re: Linux desktop market share has hit over 10% in North America
#62I imagine a big part of the puzzle is that many people do not even use laptops/desktops regularly anymore, just phones and tablets
That, and the endless stream of automated requests from various crawlers identifying themselves as browsers.
Re: Linux desktop market share has hit over 10% in North America
#63Unfortunately, Cloudflare does not agree if you filter for "likely human", which results in 6%. If you include bots, it hits 9.3%. https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=o...
Is my understanding of that graph right? if the periodic change is the weekends, that means the total share percentage of requests from Windows and macOS users drops, while Linux increases in share percentage. Linux traffic is stable regardless of weekday/weekend cycles compared to Windows and macOS? Otherwise if there was equal drop in Linux, then the share percentage would be a smoother line. Is that right?
You can't tell from this graph alone the extent to which the change in share during weekends is due to decreased use of the more popular operating systems or due to increased use of Linux.
Re: Linux desktop market share has hit over 10% in North America
#64I don't think these numbers are correct, but desktop Linux is no doubt having its year now. So many big YouTube content creators are covering Linux content and switching to Linux specifically, since the major obstacle to switching (gaming) has now been solved. Add to that the push effect from the constant enshittification of Windows.
Re: Linux desktop market share has hit over 10% in North America
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
What have they iOSed about macOS? The latest versions haven’t lost any features as far as I’m aware. But Windows lost the ability to even pin the task bar to the side of the window in Windows 11… and the ability to stop auto updates. If anything, iOS is getting more Mac-like, especially the iPad version. It has multi windowing and a window manager now.
> What have they iOSed about macOS? How about this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25074959
Meanwhile, here I am posting this using Google Chrome, with Lightroom Classic, InDesign, Sublime Text, Steam bla bla all opened in the background.
You posted a 6 years old link.
Re: Linux desktop market share has hit over 10% in North America
#66OS X: 21.14% macOS: 8.6% Yeah, if you believe this kind of stats it's on yourself. Also why are you posting a random reddit link? It doesn't even match up the latest stats provided on the official source: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide...
The thing is, there is an ongoing linux boom (the percentage doubled which means linux user base has effectively doubled too). But god help us in this AI-slop phase.
Re: Linux desktop market share has hit over 10% in North America
#67I think Linux is getting a lot more popular, but not this popular.
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
It would be hell being forced to use these things for your job. What departments were? Because I can't imagine a software developer using one.
Vscode can run in a browser, your code is often in git, and it normally is going through CI/CD (being compiled/packaged/deployed elsewhere). All you need for that is a dumb terminal.
Boy I hope VSCode runs better in the browser than all of Microsoft's other terrible web apps.
Re: Linux desktop market share has hit over 10% in North America
#69StatCounter is a joke.
Re: Linux desktop market share has hit over 10% in North America
#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's obvious that Microsoft doesn't even want to be in the consumer desktop OS market anymore, they'd rather pivot to being pure B2B like IBM did. Likewise, it's obvious that the future of MacOS is continued iOS-ification and infantilization of their OS until it will eventually be useless for anything except developing iOS apps. So neither major player will bother spending a marketing budget to reverse this trend; th…
What have they iOSed about macOS? The latest versions haven’t lost any features as far as I’m aware. But Windows lost the ability to even pin the task bar to the side of the window in Windows 11… and the ability to stop auto updates. If anything, iOS is getting more Mac-like, especially the iPad version. It has multi windowing and a window manager now.
Everything. The whole OS has been getting locked down more with each release. More harassment about Apple accounts, harder to run non signed apps, the OS gets less and less configurable. I mean when Launchpad was released, it was clearly and iOS style interface to find your apps. Maybe you aren't old enough to remember when you could literally do anything you wanted with the OS and make it work for you.