In Finland, Linux market share has jumped from 4% to 24% within the last 6 months.
That seems highly unlikely to me. Could a reason be website scrapers for AI using different user agents to prevent being blocked? The recent reports of different projects plagued by scrapers fit the timeline
If you read the FAQ, Statcounter detects and removes bot data.
Yeah i read that too. But how well is it working? I mean that’s what the news was all about the last few months. A lot off projects were having trouble blocking the bots because they were trying and succeeded to circumvent detection measures.
But how well is it working?
Yeah, that’s a good question. I don’t remember reading any documentation from Statcounter speaking about how well that bot detection and removal algorithms work. The last company I worked for did data collection, as we recorded all kinds of metrics from users. We had a team that focused on bot detection. Mostly it involved discovering the bot net and then removing all of their metrics that were accounted for in the system. Then updating the bloom filters so that any further metrics from the known bots would be ignored. Companies were paying millions of dollars for our contracts and every click was getting itemized and charged for. So, trust me, it was very important for my old company to discover and eliminate bots aggressively.
Statcounters sells their statistics and not the data from what I understand. So it does beg the question, how aggressive are they?!
Wow, that’s crazy. Any particular reason for that?
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Wow! What caused that? Orange man?
I have no idea, but it does match the Orange timeline.
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If you look back in 2022, you see the same ramp up. I expect ramp down soon.
Linux has finally surpassed the “Unknown” category in the USA!
Got a chuckle out of me! Excellent work.
One in every 20 computers. Not too shabby.
Look at the computer to your left. Now look at the computer to your right. Now look at the computers in 18 other directions. ONE OF THOSE COMPUTERS IS A LINUX.
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No, Statcounter measures usage; not machines.
So the headline is a lie and it’s not 5% of market share?
I think it is acceptably incorrect. Linux machines are everywhere, in a lot more things than what most are aware of. If you counted all “machines” in the virtual sense, that runs one of MacOS, Windows or Linux, I’d be surprised if there is more than 1% for MacOS and Windows combined.
I look at your response, then again at the headline… How is it possible for someone to be able to write, but not read?
Good question. How about you share what it is you don’t understand? “Market share” depends on some understanding. If it was “Linux machines”, there are more than 100 for every 1 of windows or macs. But fewer than one out of these 100 has a monitor, mouse and keyboard connected to them.
Ps: feel free to fuck off, if you’re going to be rude and ignorant.
Desktop Market Share. It’s right there. I can’t physically make you look more than that.
FFS, this is quoting you:
One in every 20 computers. Not too shabby.
Then someone clarified.
No, Statcounter measures usage; not machines.
Then you derped back with
So the headline is a lie and it’s not 5% of market share?
Then I made the mistake of indulging.
Go fuck off.
One in every 20 computers
No, it could be 1 in 20 computers. It could be more than 1 in 20 computers. It could be less than 1 in 20 computers. 5% of the page views, of sites that Statcounter tracks, are reported as Linux machines. There is no way to know what percentage of machines are Linux from the Statcounter reporting as it is.
Yes the important server computer is Linux, and the others are something else.
Tux having fingers kinda creeps me out.
Fuck, is this AI again?
This is what slop looks like, yes.
It’s probably all the AI web crawlers that have Linux userstringe
It tracks along the lines of all the other linux usage stats. The actual % is a bit different by the trends all show growth. PH released 5% linux usage on the desktop. US Gov released 5% linux usage on desktop. If it included web crawlers and AI scrapers the % would be like 80% since thats the majority of internet traffic.
I’ve seen a lot of machines running Linux in the last year or two
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Installing stuff needs to not be a hostile moonscape of cobbled instructions and deciphering terminal matrix-speak.
Double click to install for everything, good (as opposed to existent) GUIs for everything, one-click updates all in one place. Leave the obscure terminal stuff in forever, so the big dick terminal folk can clack away and do everything they want that way. No reason to remove any of it; it’s an awesome option to have.
It’s too difficult to recommend wholeheartedly on its own merits because of random 10,000% drops in usability. It’s not super far from living up to its ideals more fully, though. Well…it feels that way to me, but maybe those problems don’t make the amount of work to fix them obvious.
I’ll never leave it because it’s clearly the way to go, but with a little attitude solving, Linux could be the god damn best on every front, as opposed to “best overall mostly because the others are spying shitty money addicts trying to ruin your computer on purpose”.
Yeah I recently installed Signal on my kubuntu machine and the Signal website only showed how to install it via CLI no mentioning of the Discover or Snap store. My parents, who only started using the computer for the first time after their 60’s, are definitely not able to install it if they forget that the stores exist and a website tells them to use the CLI as the only option.
Like the front ends exist application makers just need to point people to it if they want Linux adoption to improve.
What don’t you like about GUI package manager frontends? The Pop!_OS spin of GNOME software worked pretty good for me and so does the cosmic-epoch store they’re working on. (Plus they both look good) Even downloading random .deb from the internet is only a double click away from being installed with Popsicle. Can’t comment on non Debian based ones though
The best part of Linux is that it comes from servers/embedded
You don’t need any specific software or GUI. It is modular and performant.
, but with a little attitude solving
pot name kettle.
When was the last time you used a Linux distro? 2005? Some desktops have had one-click updates since about that year, there are pretty good GUIs (that you don’t like them because they are in a terminal is a terminalWindowsism) and the “terminal matrix speak” is just knowing what you are talking about. You do know at least something about the parts of the car you drive, do you not?
The one big thing I grant is the double-click idioms, because at least in my experience it’s where lots of systems tend to clash against each other. A given app registers double click actions for certain files, then the browser does the same for those files, then Wine / Flatpak steals that association too… in the end you almost never know who is going to open your files in modern Linux unless you context-click specifically. It’s the one aspect on the list I’d say Linux has regressed since 2015.
I don’t know man… Once you get used to firing up a terminal and typing “flatpak install whatever” and it just installing in a few seconds, it’s hard to go back.
My sympathies go out to anybody forced to use a Linux desktop environment.
My condolences to anyone who thinks windows is more usable / suited better to their use case in any way.
I don’t know, I enjoy using gnome much more that the steaming pile of shit that is windows 11
My sympathies go out to anyone who doesn’t get paid when they have to waste time touching Windows.
sorry but if you can’t navigate around something as simple as KDE Plasma that idiocy is on you my friend because you must be bottom of the barrel dumb to not be able to figure that out.
As a life-long Windows user, Linux Mint’s Cinnamon UI feels very at-home. Hell, it feels more at-home than Win 11’s UI, since Win 11’s UI has so many weird choices and unnecessary changes from prior OSes.
Windows 11 is fine for me honestly
I don’t find it worse than Windows 10
Sure, if that’s your baseline comparison
But literally everything is better than windows 8 and above
Windows 7 was junk along with everything before it
It was junk, but Windows 8 was worse
When was he last time you tried?
You don’t know enough about Linux to defend this argument.
Just put a relatively tech unaware friend on mint. They’re doing very well so far!
Which one specifically?
While there are certainly Linux desktops I prefer more and those I prefer less, as someone who is forced to use Windows 11 at work I’d gladly take any Linux desktop environment over that mess.
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