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yuri ,

In my head it’s like half a percent, 4.45% seems huge.

Blisterexe ,

about 1/20 computers that browse the web run linux, thats pretty goofy

MCasq_qsaCJ_234 ,

To what extent could it be acceptable?

yuri ,

Goofy like silly, not like unacceptable. Reckon all three of us are happy it’s as high as it is!

SendMePhotos ,

4.45 is huge. 0.5 is normal sized.

yuri ,

Huge is just about 9 times the size of normal.

olafurp ,

YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP

Beaver ,
@Beaver@lemmy.ca avatar

We’re gonna hit that 5%

menemen ,
@menemen@lemmy.world avatar

It is kinda crazy. Been using Linux since 2005 or 2006 on my desktop/notebook. I cannot believe we are almost mainstream now.

schnurrito ,

Now that we do so many things through a browser and WebKit/Blink (which run everywhere) have become the de facto standard browser engines, the OS no longer matters as much as it used to.

oo1 ,

going to surpass ‘unknown’ any year now. it’s happening.

https://invidious.reallyaweso.me/watch?v=qK5nqmHz0UA

sunzu ,

Yes

fuck_u_spez_in_particular ,

Would be interesting to know how much of that the steam deck is

menemen ,
@menemen@lemmy.world avatar

It is not a steam user percentage, but according to the site by user data from web pages, it explicitly mentions search engines and social media. I doubt that the steam deck is extremely significant here.

theangryseal ,

I’ve been docking mine and using it as my primary pc. The only issue I’ve had is that I was able to play CSGO perfectly, and CS2 don’t do so good.

Blisterexe ,

i hear its great for that, but you are the exception.

theangryseal ,

Oh yeah, people who need more power definitely want something else. It’s all I need really. I’m about to inherit my daughter’s old gaming laptop though so I’m not sure what I’ll do then. Definitely Linux with a small partition for windows to play some VR games. I’d say I’ll still use the Steam deck for most things though because it’s so portable.

Blisterexe ,

Why a windows partition for vr? Vr works on linux

theangryseal ,

Well, I guess I won’t need one then. Hardware is a bit older but if I can get the same performance I’ll avoid the windows partition.

pete_the_cat ,

Yeah, these results are skewed because it’s only desktop Linux, so mobile devices (which I believe the Steam Deck and other portable PCs/gaming devices fall under) aren’t counted, and those primarily run Linux. It seems that the foothold of Linux never was, and probably never will be, the desktop PC.

Nikki ,
@Nikki@lemmy.world avatar

im doing my part 💪

switched to arch a week or so ago, absolutely loving it

SynopsisTantilize ,

I’m doing my part

Linux Mint here. Soon to switch to a more “manual” distro.

amazing_stories ,

I can’t think of time where I needed anything more than Mint for a desktop. It’s been on at least one device in my house since 2010.

pete_the_cat ,

The only real reason to switch to another distro nowadays is because you want to get updates faster (rolling release [like Arch] vs steady releases) and/or you want the ability to customize the OS more easily. Also, if you wanna be that person that wants to remove SystemD from Linux or have a version controlled OS.

lord_ryvan ,

Or if you’re sold on the hype of atomic distros (such as Fedora Kionite)

Or if you’re sold on reproducable OS configuration (Nix)

Or if you simply like the defaults of another distro better and don’t want to have to deviate from standards.

Or…

Nah, there’s still a lot of variety to Linux systems.

SynopsisTantilize ,

I like mint cause it stays out ofy way for literally everything.

Xylight ,
@Xylight@lemdro.id avatar

9 crossposts is crazy

namingthingsiseasy ,

One for every current ~0.5% market share!

Blisterexe ,

with like 600 comments between them, holy moley

rand_alpha19 ,

Cool. My wife switched to LMDE yesterday, so that's one more into the fold.

lord_ryvan ,

If only MS Office worked well on Linux, due to her muscle memory, my wife would’ve switched to Fedora for her laptop. Aside from light gaming (Sims 4, mostly), she’s not a tech-person at all, so that’s saying something in my book!

rand_alpha19 ,

She might adjust to LibreOffice, it borrows heavily from the MS Office UI. I think it's also available on Windows if she wants to try it before switching. Sims 4 works great on Linux too.

thingsiplay ,

Is someone kind enough to post a screenshot of the stats? I can’t access it, because its a known tracking site and get blocked by the plugins.

thingsiplay ,

Okay, I have bit the bullet and made an exception to provide screenshots myself:

https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/bffb02a9-c070-4dea-9ecf-d8259282b254.webphttps://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/e1d1e34d-59d2-4ee2-8bfa-6c40954f3034.webp

tgxn ,
@tgxn@lemmy.tgxn.net avatar

Thanks for your service, comrade.

possiblylinux127 ,

I wonder what happened to OS X

thingsiplay ,

It does not mean that something happened with MacOS / OS X. If it stays the same and everyone else gets bigger, then the same gets smaller relatively speaking. Look at the dip for OS X in Nov 2023. Looks like almost the same amount of up for Windows. Also Chrome OS went a bit down and Unknown went up, only Linux stays the same.

So either something in their software changed or it was really a phase of people buying new computers and changing their OS. For a fact, I also build my PC in Nov 2023 (but stayed on Linux). Maybe that was a time of new hardware or lower prices, don’t remember exactly.

ReversalHatchery ,

Next time try out visiting the page through archive.org

thingsiplay ,

I didn’t think of it, because I always think or archive.org as older pages/versions. The problem is, is it updated to current? It’s a big site, so probably it will be. Good idea, I’ll check that next time through archive.org.

ReversalHatchery ,

You can always* request a new archive of a website. If you log in (warning: it has to load google code at least when registering) you can also request a screenshot (which I don’t know how you find later on, but right after you get a link) and recursive archiving with a depth of 1.
Interactive elements remain interactive nowadays, but it has limitations.

In some cases archive.today is worth a try too. It has workarounds for e.g. facebook, or at least in the past it had a fake account to be able to save facebook content.
But this one loads whatever code from yandex, so if that’s problematic for you be sure to block it. uMatrix is best for that task, probably uBO can do it too, the Firefox version I mean.

These sites are basically my “remote browser”, and often it’ll be even useful for others that I requested an archive. Quite often I’m requesting the first one.

  • mostly, but you can’t if the site was very recently archived, like in 30 minutes. Then there are some sites that are blacklisted for some reason but not much.
Doods ,

[joke] That must be my friend’s laptop. [joke]

explodicle ,

To the moon!!! ┗(°0°)┛ …○

clot27 ,
@clot27@lemm.ee avatar

It is 16% in India, lessgo!

gandalf_der_12te ,

https://feddit.org/pictrs/image/5b3f2ad1-24ac-49f3-821f-33f153d724d0.png

I understand you’re excited, but aren’t you overdoing it a bit?

Magnolia_ OP ,

Quick give me more subs to crosspost

GreatRam ,

[email protected] is on there twice ???

possiblylinux127 ,

We need more cross posts

pyre ,

on Reddit I think it makes sense but on Lemmy it’s usually obnoxious in my experience, because it’s not so populated and busy, the default browsing experience already gives you posts from all over… so unless you strictly browse followed communities (which i don’t know if most people even do this) you end up seeing the same thing over and over.

pyre ,

i didn’t need this date; i already knew this because the number of people coming up to me on the street and telling me they use Linux btw unprompted has increased noticeably.

InternetUser2012 ,

Microsoft’s advertising campaign for people to switch to Linux is working great.

Solaris1789 ,
@Solaris1789@jlai.lu avatar

FREEBSD >0.009% RAAAAAH 👹👹👹💪💪💪💪💪🦾🔥🔥🔥

possiblylinux127 ,

BSD is dying

It is sad but we build up Linux so we have a libre privacy and freedom alternative

GolfNovemberUniform ,
@GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml avatar

Hmm is this really happening so fast? It’s a little hard to believe.

ulkesh ,
@ulkesh@beehaw.org avatar

I suspect it’s a bump due to Windows Recall. I know I fully switched because of it after 25 years of off and on the Linux Desktop. And I will not be going back.

GolfNovemberUniform ,
@GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml avatar

I suspect it’s a bump due to Windows Recall.

I don’t believe it that much. It may just be the Steam Deck’s financial success. But everything is possible.

ulkesh ,
@ulkesh@beehaw.org avatar

Maybe not, but, anecdotally, I know of a number of people who have made the switch because of Recall. Steam Deck surely adds to it, but people who have the choice to stop using Windows seem to be doing so.

GolfNovemberUniform ,
@GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml avatar

Maybe not, but, anecdotally, I know of a number of people who have made the switch because of Recall.

Tbh I don’t get it. Wasn’t this feature only on Copilot+ PCs that almost nobody had? Why did so many switch if it wasn’t even confirmed that it’s coming to regular x86 machines? I always find it extremely weird.

RanceMcGrew ,

Microsoft showed their hand and for some it was the last straw. It might not come to non-copilot pcs (for now) but they showed users they are OK with turning the OS into spyware.

GolfNovemberUniform ,
@GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml avatar

Imo Windows is not even an OS anymore.

RanceMcGrew ,

Agreed. It’s mostly an ad delivery platform these days. Can be somewhat OK if you have a DNS based blocker but hard to block built in spyware.

thingsiplay ,

Why did so many switch if it wasn’t even confirmed that it’s coming to regular x86 machines?

Panic.

drkt ,
@drkt@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Or they see the writing on the wall

RanceMcGrew ,

100% switched because of Recall. Been a Linux user on and off for 20 years, windows was my daily driver for the past 5 or so (windows 10 was OK in my mind). Once Recall was announced, I bounced back to Linux. Having Steam popularize gaming on Linux has helped a ton

imecth ,

Considering this is browser stats I doubt the steam deck has much to do with it, the steam deck is all about never opening anything other than steam.

GolfNovemberUniform ,
@GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml avatar

Are you sure Steam is not one of the data suppliers for it though?

plumbercraic ,
@plumbercraic@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

I wasnt thrilled about upgrading to win11 - it adds an irritating layer of stuff that I didnt want or need. The ads and telemetry bugged me too. I was probably going to reluctantly upgrade at some point though.

But then recall was announced and I realised how much worse it could get. Been really happy with the switch to Linux.

GolfNovemberUniform ,
@GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml avatar

What distro do you use?

plumbercraic ,
@plumbercraic@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Mint cinnamon 21, then upgraded to 22.

GolfNovemberUniform ,
@GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml avatar

Great choice

nossaquesapao , (edited )

Steam deck alone isn’t much. It’s not even popular in a lot of places in the world. But there are a lot of things happening in the market, and each small factor adds up to a general trend. So, there’s no single factor that we can point that will explain the linux growth in marketshare.

Magnolia_ OP ,

Yes, things move very fast if you haven’t noticed sugar pie

GolfNovemberUniform ,
@GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml avatar

Sus

Valmond ,

That’s what she said

TheGrandNagus , (edited )

Yes, although it’s not evenly distributed. Much of this rise is due to India doing some heavy lifting - they’re on like 16%, and they’re not exactly a small population.

Most places are in the 1.5-3.5% range.

GolfNovemberUniform ,
@GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml avatar

Even 3.5% is quite a lot imo.

TheGrandNagus ,

Indeed it is. But this is also calculated based on monthly page views, so it only really covers devices that are used in that month.

There’s a non-trivial amount of Windows users that have a dusty laptop that they only pull out when they need to write a document or fill in a form that they got emailed, and will otherwise do all their computing on their phone.

My guess would be that Mac and Linux have fewer of these types of users? But who knows. I have a couple of Linux devices that I almost never use 🤷‍♀️

GolfNovemberUniform ,
@GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml avatar

I’ve seen many people having Linux on such devices so idk either.

possiblylinux127 ,

You should go to your local university or knowledge center. The percentage is like 10%-20%

nossaquesapao , (edited )

There’s some kind of network effect associated to it, so the greater the numbers, the more likely to grow even more, and faster. For example, when linux was used only by a very few people in IT, most people were unlikely to even give it a try, but now that every class or working group are likely to have one or two linux users, more people will be likely to try it, and so on.

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