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Linux Desktop Market Share Surpasses 10% in North America

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Re: Linux Desktop Market Share Surpasses 10% in North America

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Post by throw453 »

yomismoaqui wrote: post #5
Grombobulous wrote: post #2

As the article points out, we’re not sure about the validity of these numbers. Anecdotally though, the idea of major creators like Linus Tech Tips and Marques Brownlee putting out Linux content was unheard of a few short years ago. I have been seeing a wide trend among the Windows tech-savvy universe of frustrated users who have social media platforms suggesting strongly that people give it a try. Plus, you’ve got St…

Don't forget PewDiePie, the last person I expected to do a video about migrating to Linux.

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Re: Linux Desktop Market Share Surpasses 10% in North America

#12

Post by marklar423 »

> However, the sharp monthly increase needs context. Statcounter’s June figures included an “Unknown” category that accounted for 9.24% of North American desktop usage. Its reduction seems to have coincided with Linux’s rise, possibly indicating better identification of previously unclassified traffic.

Still good news for those wanting to see broader Linux adoption, but the news really is the usage was correctly recognized as Linux for the first time.

Re: Linux Desktop Market Share Surpasses 10% in North America

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Post by ipdashc »

Grombobulous wrote: post #4
SoftTalker wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In my experience, LLMs are not great at resolving linux issues, but they are better than what we've had in the past. Trying to use forums and web searches was exhausting, and you'd often deal with people who were trying to show how smart they are and rather than answering your questions they demand to know "what are you really trying to do?"

I totally disagree there. My medium-technical non-programmer friend completely installed set up Linux without my help using Claude. As the resident IT person among my friend group this blew my mind. I’ve noticed that it’s helped me as well, because it’s able to give me diagnostic commands that I can run and report back with the results. For example, I fixed/set up a virtual machine with libvertd and I just wouldn’t h…

> medium-technical non-programmer friend completely installed set up Linux without my help using Claude

I mean, not to do the HN thing, but I feel like if anything that's a bad sign for Linux that Claude was needed? Basically any desktop distro from the last decade has a simple GUI installer, if anything it's genuinely easier than installing Windows. I'd expect a medium-technical person to be able to handle it just fine, what did Claude help them with?

I do use LLMs for random debugging questions (most recently laptop dual graphics for instance) but the base install has always worked fine for me

Re: Linux Desktop Market Share Surpasses 10% in North America

#14

Post by chirau »

yomismoaqui wrote: post #5
Grombobulous wrote: post #2

As the article points out, we’re not sure about the validity of these numbers. Anecdotally though, the idea of major creators like Linus Tech Tips and Marques Brownlee putting out Linux content was unheard of a few short years ago. I have been seeing a wide trend among the Windows tech-savvy universe of frustrated users who have social media platforms suggesting strongly that people give it a try. Plus, you’ve got St…

Don't forget PewDiePie, the last person I expected to do a video about migrating to Linux.

whatever happened to that guy? He used to be the biggest thing on Youtube.

Re: Linux Desktop Market Share Surpasses 10% in North America

#15

Post by hatsuseno »

throw453 wrote: post #11
yomismoaqui wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't forget PewDiePie, the last person I expected to do a video about migrating to Linux.

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irrelevant in context, assuming you're right, but considering you made a throwaway to say it, probably not

Re: Linux Desktop Market Share Surpasses 10% in North America

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Post by ogig »

SoftTalker wrote: post #3
Grombobulous wrote: post #2

As the article points out, we’re not sure about the validity of these numbers. Anecdotally though, the idea of major creators like Linus Tech Tips and Marques Brownlee putting out Linux content was unheard of a few short years ago. I have been seeing a wide trend among the Windows tech-savvy universe of frustrated users who have social media platforms suggesting strongly that people give it a try. Plus, you’ve got St…

In my experience, LLMs are not great at resolving linux issues, but they are better than what we've had in the past. Trying to use forums and web searches was exhausting, and you'd often deal with people who were trying to show how smart they are and rather than answering your questions they demand to know "what are you really trying to do?"

Hard disagree. Claude with full access to a system is an amazing forensic, digging through obscure dumps, configuring tracing and measuring results, fast. It's also an amazing interface, from setting up environments, tweaking hidden parameters and everyday operations. I don't have such a customized (and functional) system since I was a way more energized teenager with plenty of time to fiddle around. Now it's instant.

I do think llm assisted linux has a bright future. It feels like scifi using a system with them, gluing all the power scattered in small tools.

Re: Linux Desktop Market Share Surpasses 10% in North America

#17

Post by hatsuseno »

chirau wrote: post #14
yomismoaqui wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't forget PewDiePie, the last person I expected to do a video about migrating to Linux.

whatever happened to that guy? He used to be the biggest thing on Youtube.

stopped with gaming content for the most part, moved to japan and does the occasional vlog about his kid or family or whatever. retired, basically.

Re: Linux Desktop Market Share Surpasses 10% in North America

#18

Post by jcastro »

ipdashc wrote: post #13
Grombobulous wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I totally disagree there. My medium-technical non-programmer friend completely installed set up Linux without my help using Claude. As the resident IT person among my friend group this blew my mind. I’ve noticed that it’s helped me as well, because it’s able to give me diagnostic commands that I can run and report back with the results. For example, I fixed/set up a virtual machine with libvertd and I just wouldn’t h…

> medium-technical non-programmer friend completely installed set up Linux without my help using Claude I mean, not to do the HN thing, but I feel like if anything that's a bad sign for Linux that Claude was needed? Basically any desktop distro from the last decade has a simple GUI installer, if anything it's genuinely easier than installing Windows. I'd expect a medium-technical person to be able to handle it just f…

> what did Claude help them with?

https://askubuntu.com/

There's decades of this stuff.

Re: Linux Desktop Market Share Surpasses 10% in North America

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Post by PacificSpecific »

SoftTalker wrote: post #3
Grombobulous wrote: post #2

As the article points out, we’re not sure about the validity of these numbers. Anecdotally though, the idea of major creators like Linus Tech Tips and Marques Brownlee putting out Linux content was unheard of a few short years ago. I have been seeing a wide trend among the Windows tech-savvy universe of frustrated users who have social media platforms suggesting strongly that people give it a try. Plus, you’ve got St…

In my experience, LLMs are not great at resolving linux issues, but they are better than what we've had in the past. Trying to use forums and web searches was exhausting, and you'd often deal with people who were trying to show how smart they are and rather than answering your questions they demand to know "what are you really trying to do?"

I dare say LLMs were one of the things that finally pushed me over the top to be a full time Linux user. For a lifetime Windows user Linux novice like me they really helped me get unblocked on basic stuff like installing Nvidia drivers and setting up a samba share.
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