Linux smashes another market share record for August 2024 on Statcounter
Linux smashes another market share record for August 2024 on Statcounter
Another fresh month and so we have the latest operating system market share details from Statcounter, and it's another impressive showing for Linux from August 2024.
I’m not sure how true this is, but I read somewhere that when Mac got above 5% market share, it suddenly got a lot more mainstream support.
I wonder if that means we’re are a year or two away from Linux as a mainstream option.
I’d love to have an arm based Linux laptop with software support for one of my critical work apps.
The problem is I don't think I believe those numbers represent actual desktop use as an exclusive desktop use platform.
They're just 'someone visited a website with a linux user agent', which could mean an awful lot of things ranging from someone doing automated scraping with a headless chrome, to an actual user, to someone just plain lying about what OS they're using in order to break fingerprinting.
The number goes up and down WAY too much percentage-wise between months for it to be a really good measure of how much linux on the desktop there actually is, as much as I'd like it to be true :/
Well, I currently have my browser set to fake my user agent as windows on my linux desktop. So it's not overestimated in every case. I suspect it's a bit higher than the true percentage, but not by very much.
At the end of the day it's still good news. The accuracy isn't important as is overall visibility and status in the public conscious. Folks downplay steamdeck, deepin, and chrome os, but more usage even if limited can cause a significant snowball effect which I believe will happen with steam os being formalized. The linux challenge and proton have, and will continue to do wonders for linux in the public conscious, eventually leading to better support.
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This is coming from experience in marketing.
someone just plain lying about what OS they're using in order to break fingerprinting.
The idea with avoiding fingerprinting is to look like whatever the biggest group of users looks like, because that's who you share the fingerprint with. If you use an uncommon value for something, you make fingerprinting easier.
That's one of the reasons why for example Vivaldi on Linux sets its user agent to match the latest version Chrome on Windows.
One difference is that retail outlets can profit from Apple products. Linux isn't a company that makes hardware.
But you can but a Dell with Linux on it instead of windows.
I'd like to see a logarithmic version of this graph. Picking out a straight line in a log graph is easier than trying to discern an exponential. I want that juicy exponential.
Wow how can I invest in Linux
Here is my attempt at digitizing that plot and then log-scaling the vertical axis.
This is amazing! Thank you so much for doing this!! Would you mind telling me your process for extracting the data from the graph? Did you tediously manually extract eye-balled data-points? Or, did you run it through some software which extracted them? Or, perhaps, did you just find and use the original data source?
I would love to switch to Linux, but everytime I try to look at it seriously, I get overwhelmed by the choosing of distros and people saying its hard and complicated. I wish it was more clear cut where you should start. I used to think it was ubuntu, but then people shit on it. Then I thought it was Mint, then people shit on that. So on and so forth. Makes it hard to understand how to even approach it.
Mint would be a perfect distro to start with. Don’t listen to them—just download Mint. I don’t like Ubuntu but honestly it would be fine too. In other words, although it does matter, it does not matter as much as people say as long as you do not start with something to too hard to install.
Mint is lovely! I started out with it years ago and still use it today.
Please do not care about people shitting on popular distros. As a gentoo user myself, it's as niche as it gets, but I will wholeheartedly recommend Ubuntu and mint.
People shit on any distro 😂 just get whatever works for you, differences aren’t that big, after all.
I personally like the easy version of Arch (endeavourOS) and install stuff there only using yay in terminal (yay [name of program you nees])
yea just go mint it's goated.
If you come from Windows Mint is an excellent starting point. People shit on it because it doesn't have all the fancy bells and whistles you get with more latest releases, but on the flip side it's super reliable and as a new user that reliability is worth more than all the bells and whistles.
I have a question for you, coming from a long time Linux user. How do you decide which car to buy? There are so many options, each have their own mileage, comfort, capabilities. Would you say it's difficult buying a car?
Mint’s fine. I might also recommend PopOS - it just seems to be less crappy Ubuntu.
Don't listen to people. Choose any distro that is newbie friendly. If you don't choose, you are still choosing. The worst of your choices is probably better than what you are currently using.
Use EndeavourOS