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j4k3 , in Random thought: Linux has a higher market share than Firefox if stat counter is to be believed
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I never trust stat counters of any kind with linux. I often see stuff like that plastered on my whitelist firewall, like bumper insects on a high speed summer drive through Florida. There is usually some other stat of leet users. That’s Linux too. Then there are those times when I change my browser agent just for fun.

RootBeerGuy , in Random thought: Linux has a higher market share than Firefox if stat counter is to be believed
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Browsers are mostly identified by user-agent, or not? If so it isn’t surprising because people like to fake that. In the least to shut down such silly messages like “please use chrome/edge”

leopold ,

OS is also identified by user agent, so it’s no less vulnerable to fake agents. In any case, I’d wager the vast majority of users even on Linux use unaltered agents, though this isn’t something that can be backed up one way or another because there are no numbers for fake agents.

TheOctonaut ,

The number of people that do this is not going to even remotely shift the usage share percentage.

just_another_person , in FFVII and 7th Heaven

Steam Deck instructions would work just the same for your Linux install. Just follow whatever that says.

Shadow , in Random thought: Linux has a higher market share than Firefox if stat counter is to be believed
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I’d believe it. I’ve had hundreds of Linux servers that don’t have any desktop Gui at all deployed on them.

Linux desktop users make up an absolutely tiny fraction of Linux installs.

Morphit ,
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I don’t think that’s what ‘market share’ is trying to represent, but without any context - yeah. You can lump in android phones and set-top boxes and signage and industrial controllers while you’re at it.

mrvictory1 , in Question: What is Linux misinformation?

Outdated launch parameters and environment variables uploaded to ProtonDB

TheGrandNagus , in Random thought: Linux has a higher market share than Firefox if stat counter is to be believed

Statcounter does not say that.

  • Firefox (all platforms): 2.74%
  • Linux (all platforms): 1.61%
  • Firefox (desktop): 6.64%
  • Linux (desktop): 4.45%

Firefox has 50-70% more users than Linux.

Morphit ,
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Is OP adding the Android share to Linux? That would certainly do it.

  • Android (all platforms): 45.19%

Only makes sense if you know their definition of ‘Linux’ though.

TheGrandNagus ,

True, that could be it.

Although then the “Wild isn’t it” statement really isn’t wild at all - Android is by far and away the most popular OS, not far off double Windows. Of course if you lump that in with Linux, Linux would be more popular than Firefox.

LunarLoony , in Linux on non-PCs/Laptops
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Examples I’ve seen in the wild:

  • Argos POS terminals using CentOS
  • ATM using OS/2 Warp
  • Co-op tills running (I think) Windows Embedded POSReady
  • TVs using Yodeck (ultimately Raspbian, I guess)
  • Occasionally, ad terminal things using Raspbian
rzr , in Debian Day 2024 Party Events

How comes NA is not represented and EU so little ? At least there is one event on each continent (except Oceania)

just_another_person , in Can't connect to host after enabling WireGuard tunnel

Because the default route is changing. You have ALL traffic being routed over Wireguard here. How would you expect that to allow the interface routing to work for the local network if you’re telling this to punt all traffic to this specific connection?

user_naa OP ,

What is correct config?

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