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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works to c/linux@programming.dev

EDIT (2025-12-19T09:08Z): Whoops! I totally didn't see that this had already been posted to this community ^[2]^. I didn't mean to repost it. My bad!

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  1. Type: Image. Title: "Traffic by Operating System". Publisher: ["Pornhub">"2025 YEAR IN REVIEW"]. Published: 2025-12-03. Accessed: 2025-12-16T23:00Z. URI: https://www.pornhub.com/insights/2025-year-in-review.
    • Location: §"Traffic by Operating System".
  2. Type: Post. Title: "Linux traffic has grown 22.4% in PH this year". Author: "maam" ("@maam@feddit.uk"). Publisher: ["sh.itjust.works">"Linux" ("!linux@programming.dev")]. Published: 2025-12-09T1;31:57Z. Accessed: 2025-12-19T09:10Z. URI: https://sh.itjust.works/post/51299445.
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[-] snooting@wetshav.ing 120 points 1 month ago

Is this how the world finds out that it’s finally the year of the Linux desktop?

[-] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago

You think they're pleasuring themselves at their desktops?

[-] MotoAsh@piefed.social 4 points 1 month ago
[-] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago

tbf I was being facetious. Something something ThinkPad

[-] HakunaHafada@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

More like WankPad, amirite?

[-] Sims@lemmy.ml 32 points 1 month ago

Yeah, I lost my girlfriend, so .. no judging please !

[-] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 40 points 1 month ago

Did you look at the last place you saw her?

[-] Makeitstop@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago

That's what he's doing.

[-] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

No, the Waffle House bathrooms are closed for cleaning

[-] SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

You can use CTRL+R to search you command history. Much faster thst hitting the up arrow. I am sure she will turn up.

[-] SPRUNT@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago

The Steam Deck can run a browser, right?

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.org 4 points 1 month ago
[-] TacoSocks@infosec.pub 13 points 1 month ago

He implying people are using the steam deck to wank.

[-] olympicyes@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

They used to include Nintendo 3DS on the survey results. I can only think of one kind of PH user that would prefer Steam deck.

[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 month ago

THIS IS THE YEAR OF LINUX DESKTOP.

[-] horn_e4_beaver@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago

This is the dawning of the age of aquarius

[-] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

How much of that was furry porn?

[-] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 7 points 1 month ago
[-] protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago

gay furry porn

[-] cm0002@programming.dev 13 points 1 month ago

Sorry guys, it was just me

/Jk

[-] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

22.4% of 5% base, so in actuality a 1% increase. While the title is technically accurate, it's very misleading.

[-] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago

It's not at all misleading. That's how percantages work. It plainly says '+22.4%', which is fully factual and accurate. Your 'actual 1% increase' is a false statement. It's a 1 percentage point increase, which is completely separate from the regular percantage.

[-] FishFace@piefed.social 13 points 1 month ago

A percentage increase is a relative increase. The thing you're thinking of would be described as "percentage points".

It's somewhat misleading to talk about a large percentage increase on a small base, though.

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[-] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm struggling to understand why you think the title is misleading. Could you elaborate on your rationale to help me understand? 🙂

Do you perhaps have an alternative title that you would suggest? Would you be satisfied by something like, for example, "Pornhub saw a 22.4% increase in Linux traffic (from [e.g.] 5% to ~6%) over 2025"?

[-] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

Sure! As is currently written, it gives the first impression (to me, at least) that the traffic share of Linux has jumped from x% to (x+22)%. Now I understand that this is subjective, but I believe that's how many people would read it at first glance as well.

Again, there's nothing technically inaccurate about it, but the 22% number there is imo distracting and tends to lead to misunderstandings. I would personally write it as "Pornhub sees Linux traffic share increase from 5% to 6% (22.4% increase) over 2025"

[-] dakoriki@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 month ago

Well it is an increase of 22,4 percent but at the same time an increase of 1 percentage point. So both are correct. But as we know bigger number more better so thats what we got

[-] olafurp@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Nah mate, it's very much exactly what it says. A ambiguous statement would be "Share of Linux devices on pornhub grew by 22.5%" which could be either in relative or absolute terms. Traffic increase is pretty much number of requests made from a Linux machine grew by 22.5%.

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago
[-] pivot_root@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

It doesn't work like that. They use the self-reported user agent from the web browser that is requesting the page.

[-] Willy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

cool and all but what % of people watch porn on their “big screen”? hard for me to remember that last time I wanked it at a desktop. shit, it might have been at work which would require windows.

[-] olafurp@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

You can open the link and find out. It's 11%.

[-] horn_e4_beaver@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 month ago

How else do we get the data to train our Language and Vision models?

[-] Deconceptualist@leminal.space 3 points 1 month ago

Sorry everyone, that was me.

Wait no, it was Sims, he already fessed up. Yep totally him and not me.

[-] Eh_I@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Weird tug of war

[-] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago

Probably some data hoarders scraping that shit

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago

Would they identify as Linux though and not simply as Windows?

[-] Damage@feddit.it 2 points 1 month ago

Depends on the default use agent for yt-dlp I guess

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[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 1 month ago

sounds likely, since alot of PH thats been sanatized ends up on non-PH sites.

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