Linux traffic has grown 22.4% in PH this year

PornHub is a treasure trove for... data science

Linux marketshare is now big enough to fit tux inside the chart! We did it!

It's the year of the Linux desktop
- It's funny to think there are already teenagers born in a year of the Linux desktop

Now that Linux is mainstream where do we move to feel elitist? DragonFly BSD? Redox OS?

TempleOS
SerenityOS is "a love letter to '90s user interfaces with a custom Unix-like core".
It's good enough to be proud of, while alienating normal people, not incidentally, like linux used to, but on purpose, like this sentence does, making it a great for elitists.
- One could alternatively run GNU hurd, then you also get Debian but also cachè
- Perfect. Installing now.
  Next year will be SerenityOS desktop year!
- I thought it was not recommended to run on bare metal? There are some other obscure OSes that can run fine on bare metal (although Serenity is not really obscure in the foss space, only in the mainstream)
- Hmm I cannot find some community discussions about this on distrowatch but this looks surely awesome! I always wanted to go back to my childhoods computing interface -- oh god I need that
  But what type of kernel is this the new talk about "custom unix-like core"? So this is not linux, it is also not unix? Seems like it would bring me back the same fun of exploring some unknown os, like when I was 7 years old.
I preordered a Jolla. Chasing that "0.6 % Other" high.
The real elites shall forever be the Plan9 group. There's dozens of users! Dozens!
HaikuOS
We just start the distro wars.
- I'm on Debian. Is that niche enough?
- The Distro Wars have already been raging for decades now.
Create ExLisperOS and you're good to go.

Useragent counts towards this?

Yeah it'll be a naive check of just Useragent, so some of these will be bots, some will be spoofed, etc

Year of the Linux gooning

Lots of wankers using Linux, eh?

People probably don’t want to watch it with their Microsoft employee.

Would love to see what kind of porn Linux users watch compared to others.

Polyamorous in public. It's open and anyone can contribute.
- Brilliant
"Femboy" or furry, obviously.
I use Arch btw.
Anime? Manga? Tentacle?
Whatever type it's probably esoteric and somehow involves the command line.
- Whatever kink, but with consent not sudo.
- what else is there ? porn with a GUI ??
- Why did no one tell me about the terminal tentacles?
Personally, nothing on PornHub.
I’d guess there’s less traffic to “landlubber” sites from Linux users.

It's better to stay away from windows if you're having a wank.

Brilliant
- That'd make a great switch to Linux billboard.
You don't want an agentic AI to coach you through the process or relevant ads after?

I'm doing my part!

Heh, my "part"

angry upvote 😡

Hey. It's been a lonely year. Don't shame me, bro.

But nobody did...
I watch porn sometimes. Period. No need too add guilt, shame or anything negative too that. It is somethin people do and is part of how people live their sexuality and that's that.

ChromeOS always disturbs me. Is there a 2.4% out there casually watching porn on side with their chromebooks during highschool geometry?

And why they switching to linux?

chromebooks during highschool geometry
Nah, most of the school equipment/networks are monitored/blocked to hell and back. I'm not saying they can't find loopholes, but they're severely hampered, and when they get caught, it's a big deal.
A lot of that chromeOS is people buying the cheapest hardware at Walmart and using it as their faptop.
Just like a lot of the Linux is probably steamdecks.

Frustrating that you can't even get to the pornhub press pages and look at the year in review without hopping on VPN if you're in a restricted area. I feel like Cherie Deville with her PSA on the block page might technically be the most viewed model on there now.

I feel your pain.
Cries in Tennessee

I think this is YoY PP growth as a percentage, which might be unintentionally confusing.

Link my friend?

There's an old thing "the thing that won the Video Format Wars was porn", because in the 80s, mail order and rental porn was very popular, and the easiest format (VHS) to buy and record onto won largely because of that.

Makes me wonder if we'll see the same for Operating Systems?

It was probably sports that made VHS the winner. Porn was on both technologies (and available at local video rental places in Australia at least).
VHS could handle a full gridiron game (but not a cricket match) but Betamax couldn't.
- The real truth is it's probably both, and also other factors, but over time people have simplified the explanation to be "it's just one of the factors that did it!"

AI agents and web scrapers surely

I would expect AI scrapers to fake a windows user-agent tbh.
- Why? Isn't it likely that it'll just report e.g. "python-requests" for the user agent, and it's up to the server side to decide what that means?
Chrome OS is down, they probably got reinstalled with regular Linux. The rest represents about 1% of the total market share, which could probably be Steam Decks.

I'm doing my part

Genuine curiosity from someone not deeply familiar with the details - what sort of operating systems fall under "Other" for desktops?

Pretty much everything other than TempleOS. FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Haiku OS, Redox OS, Sculpt OS etc.
- Imagine TempleOS for PH :) I'm not saying I don't think it happens ... but the irony.
BSD, Haiku and pretty much anything that hides or manipulates the user agent string.

I want SteamOS to turn into a general purpose OS so I can shitcan Windows for good!

There are already quite a few immutable distros you could use today like Bazzite or Fedora Atomic. The main advantage of SteamOS is that it's tailor made for specific hardware, an advantage it would automatically lose as a general purpose OS.
Isn't it already in desktop mode? I swapped to linux and mostly use flatpaks on my main pc and havent looked back after a year.
- I forgot I was using docked bazzite handheld as a pc for setup yesterday and started using it for my normal browsing. No differnce using zen there or on my pc, except the amount of tabs before I lag, way less resources but I didnt really experience issues (legion go s z2 go)

Linux usafe has surely grown, but I think a laege percentage of that are AI crawlers and shit like that.

Inadvertently contributed to this statistic lol

I'm gonna fire up haiku and boost that other percentage

MacOS getting a little side action, too.

This must somehow be related to the VPN vendors, right? Or perhaps even remote desktops?

Nah, I was just feeling extra lonely this year and created some extra traffic.

The Philippines has been a lot in the news lately, did not expect them to be an inspiration for the Linux world as well.

Statistical anomaly. This year they accidentally counted Jorkin Georg.

Lost a little of its acid.

Not even 0.1 units, though.

VPN services probably run on Linux

Vpn services doesn't change your user agent typically
This would have zero effect on these metrics. A VPN only routes your connection through a server, which device identification is not affected by.

Isn't this skewed by people using a dedicated faptop or dual booting to Linux for extra privacy?