▲ 362 ▼ After Europe ditched Windows, China follows suit with its own home-grown Linux distros (www.xda-developers.com) submitted 2 days ago* by inari@piefed.zip to c/linux@lemmy.world 69 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 9 points 2 days ago (3 children) Do you mean steam stats? I don't know of many others, and those are going to be enthusiasts of one form or another. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] davetortoise@reddthat.com 7 points 2 days ago Yep thats the main one I've seen posted around. I'm sure their data is accurate but I'm not convinced it's representative of the wider consumer market permalink fedilink source parent [–] morto@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago There are a lot of other stats around, like statcounter, cloudflare, wikimedia, and even the data pornhub publishes from time to time. All of them show linux growing, and they all have different audiences and maybe methodologies permalink fedilink source parent [–] otter@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 child) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science,_technology,_engineering,_and_mathematics My bad, I misunderstood permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] wewbull@feddit.uk 4 points 2 days ago* (2 children) I wasn't questioning STEM. Op mentioned consumer OS market share stats, and the only ones I know of are from Steam. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] ieGod@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems The article acknowledges the difficulty in gathering data, and moreover for their desktop numbers they reference StatCounter which itself only counts web-based usage on a subset of pages which are part of their network. permalink fedilink source parent [–] otter@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago* Ah that's my mistake permalink fedilink source parent
[–] davetortoise@reddthat.com 7 points 2 days ago Yep thats the main one I've seen posted around. I'm sure their data is accurate but I'm not convinced it's representative of the wider consumer market permalink fedilink source parent
[–] morto@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago There are a lot of other stats around, like statcounter, cloudflare, wikimedia, and even the data pornhub publishes from time to time. All of them show linux growing, and they all have different audiences and maybe methodologies permalink fedilink source parent
[–] otter@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 child) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science,_technology,_engineering,_and_mathematics My bad, I misunderstood permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] wewbull@feddit.uk 4 points 2 days ago* (2 children) I wasn't questioning STEM. Op mentioned consumer OS market share stats, and the only ones I know of are from Steam. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] ieGod@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems The article acknowledges the difficulty in gathering data, and moreover for their desktop numbers they reference StatCounter which itself only counts web-based usage on a subset of pages which are part of their network. permalink fedilink source parent [–] otter@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago* Ah that's my mistake permalink fedilink source parent
[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 4 points 2 days ago* (2 children) I wasn't questioning STEM. Op mentioned consumer OS market share stats, and the only ones I know of are from Steam. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] ieGod@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems The article acknowledges the difficulty in gathering data, and moreover for their desktop numbers they reference StatCounter which itself only counts web-based usage on a subset of pages which are part of their network. permalink fedilink source parent [–] otter@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago* Ah that's my mistake permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ieGod@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems The article acknowledges the difficulty in gathering data, and moreover for their desktop numbers they reference StatCounter which itself only counts web-based usage on a subset of pages which are part of their network. permalink fedilink source parent