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[–] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 53 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I'm obviously limited to my own bubble, but my friends / aquintances consist mostly of "tech aware" people and they have been getting cozy with Fedora and Linux Mint due to the BuyFromEU/BuyFromEurope movement.

I know from a few schools that they use ChromeBooks since corona pandemic (they were handing them to kids so everyone could equally attend remotely) and they just kept using them since they had them when they returned to classrooms. I don't know how widespread this is and don't know if chromebooks count towards linux desktop stats?

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[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

There seems to be some debate on whether we are counting Chromebooks as Linux.

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[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

the debate basically comes down to "technically linux" (ie, it runs on the linux kernal like chrome os and android) and "spiritually linux" (ie, you, the end user, are the ultimate owner of the hardware and the software that runs on it). i think if we're talking the latter chromeos belongs less than windows does. however for a stat collector this may be an impossible ask

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[–] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

for a stat collector this may be an impossible ask

I would put ChromeOS in it's own category just because it is so different than the other Linux variants, just as MacOS is so different than the rest.

Windows, Linux, MacOS, ChromeOS

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

the debate basically comes down to “technically linux” (ie, it runs on the linux kernal like chrome os and android) and “spiritually linux” (ie, you, the end user, are the ultimate owner of the hardware and the software that runs on it).

This is why Stallman tried to insist on "GNU/". As usual, he was right.

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[–] unskilled5117@feddit.org 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Chromeos is counted seperatly with ~1,25%

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[–] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Ah okay so that's not it. Thanks for clarifying.

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[–] Jontique@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago*

Another finn chiming in, linux user for about 1.5 years. Another friend of mine started dual booting recently. Wouldn't say it's common to use Linux at all.

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[–] Pringles@sopuli.xyz 18 points 1 year ago

Sopuli.xyz is run from Finland, so probably yes.

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[–] MysteriousSophon21@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Yeah that stat is almost certainly a measurement artifact - these browser-based surveys only track user-agent strings which can be spoofed, and some Finnish university or government network probably changed their default config or started running a massive scraper project lol.