599
Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA (ostechnix.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/linux@lemmy.world
87 comments fedilink hide all child comments

top 50 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] 144 points 1 year ago* (21 children)

In Finland, Linux market share has jumped from 4% to 24% within the last 6 months.

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/finland

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • hideshow 21 child comments
    •
  • [–] 68 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    That must be a mistake. Are there any Finish people on Lemmy? I'd like to know if they are observing this on the ground, because honestly, if every 4th person had Linux there it would be somewhat visible. Even non-techies in the family or friend circle would mention it or ask about switching to it, or there would be a popular store to buy stuff with linux pre-installed.

    Anti Commercial-AI license

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 10 child comments
    •
  • [–] 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?

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 6 child comments
    •
  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
    •
  • [–] 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

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 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

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 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.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 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.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
    • [–] 64 points 1 year ago

    Linux has finally surpassed the "Unknown" category in the USA!

    Got a chuckle out of me! Excellent work.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
    •
    [–] 46 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    One in every 20 computers. Not too shabby.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • hideshow 12 child comments
    •
    • load more comments (10 replies)
    [–] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Tux having fingers kinda creeps me out.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
    • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
    •
    [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It's probably all the AI web crawlers that have Linux userstringe

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    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.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
    • load more comments (1 reply)
    [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    merican gif

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
    •
    load more comments
    view more: next ›