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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 shmerl »

gregman1 wrote: post #56
shmerl wrote: post #11

Good progress of Linux gaming probably contributed to this.

The decision of Microsoft to withdraw from Russia has had a significant impact as well, particularly due to the emergence of government-supported Linux distributions that are gaining popularity among various organizations and companies in the former USSR and BRICS nations.

That never stopped pirates there so I doubt it's much of an incentive.

The biggest driver of adoption is simply more computers sold with Linux pre-installed. Very small fraction of users ever installs an OS.

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Post by john61 »

Market share is a quantity ratio. For me it is not important that a lot of people use Linux besides me. But it is very important who uses it. That is because this is not a consumer good with buyers and sellers, and therefore this not a market. Important is that competent people are using Linux, because that guarantees that it gets better every year, which it does since I use it for 30 years. From my personal experience the most competent IT people I met were using Linux.

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Post by stodor89 »

laserbeam wrote: post #34

Every once in a while I'm tempted to switch back to Linux (I used to have that as my desktop between 10 and 15 years ago), but then I remember: - My DJ software (which I pay for) is not supported at all on Linux (likewise true for most common music production software). - The Affinity suite (which I paid for) is not supported on Linux. - The best debugger I can find (remedybg, which I paid for) doesn't work there. -…

I too occasionally feel the urge to go back to Linux, but then I remember I'm a game developer. Oof.

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Post by cubix »

laserbeam wrote: post #40
hulitu wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Schools. Chromebooks are generally sold to schools in bulk.

They seem to be popular with retirees who don't need to do much more than use Facebook, email, and watch YouTube videos.

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Post by sersi »

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.

Re: Linux has achieved a 3% desktop market share

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Post by borissk »

DiabloD3 wrote: post #49

I wonder why they keep making these articles. Linux is on more computers both today and all of the computers ever made put together than any other OS. It is on virtually all servers on the Internet, the majority OS on phones, its in many TVs and STBs and streaming sticks, its one of the few OSes ever in space, its one of the few OSes ever on Mars, and it is also the OS behind ChromeOS (which that article mistakenly b…

>> is the largest corp contributor to Linux

You're mostly right, but this is incorrect. MS was the largest kernel contributor for a few days 10 years ago, but overall companies like Intel, Google, Oracle and IBM contribute a lot more.

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Post by qwytw »

AmericanChopper wrote: post #59
electricduck wrote: post #10

I'm kinda surprised this entirely forgot to mention the SteamDeck. I'd love to know how much of an impact that had, considering apparently 3 million units have been sold (according to Valve). Alas, how many of those users know they are running Linux is another question.

SteamDecks aren’t desktop PCs. If you were including gaming consoles/handhelds, then BSD would be way ahead of Linux with all the PlayStations that have been sold (and maybe with Nintendo switches too, depending on how you chose to count those).

There is more to an 'OS' than the kernel.

SteamDecks are indistinguishable from PCs, since they run more or less exactly the same software as a Linux desktop/laptop would.

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Post by bruce511 »

DiabloD3 wrote: post #49

I wonder why they keep making these articles. Linux is on more computers both today and all of the computers ever made put together than any other OS. It is on virtually all servers on the Internet, the majority OS on phones, its in many TVs and STBs and streaming sticks, its one of the few OSes ever in space, its one of the few OSes ever on Mars, and it is also the OS behind ChromeOS (which that article mistakenly b…

And yet not having a presence on the desktop stings a bit doesn't it :).

You can conquer the world, dominate every space and yet there's thus little voice inside saying "but you're not good enough. See over there, in that one space, you're a weakling. "

Welcome to the human condition.

Re: Linux has achieved a 3% desktop market share

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Post by nomilk »

DiabloD3 wrote: post #49

I wonder why they keep making these articles. Linux is on more computers both today and all of the computers ever made put together than any other OS. It is on virtually all servers on the Internet, the majority OS on phones, its in many TVs and STBs and streaming sticks, its one of the few OSes ever in space, its one of the few OSes ever on Mars, and it is also the OS behind ChromeOS (which that article mistakenly b…

> its one of the few OSes ever on Mars

When explaining linux to skeptical non-techies, I tell them it's the OS running the nuclear submarines right now. Suddenly they're more confident it can handle their ecommerce dashboard.

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