I can't imagine running another OS other than Linux on my personal machine. You get a sense of control and privacy you won't get from the main other OSes.
I step onto the Windows GUI occasionally for work and I always walk away missing Sway. There's those snap windows but despite that the whole UI just seems so busy and crowded.
This could just be because at some point everything I did was either in a terminal or browser (when did that happen?) and Windows always seems to be sitting around waiting for you to open some windowed app.
Late 90s argument against linux sounded like “we need to run Office”. Today i don’t need spreadsheets that are not shared in real time with my colleagues. So you use web version of excel/googlesheets and it doesn’t matter what OS is running your webkit-based browser.
Also all the “free software” is in someone else’s server.
In the past there was a binary running on your machine working with data stored locally. You had defacto control of your data. You also had defacto control of the program running since you could look at the assembly, maybe even patch it.
Now the software, all runs on the cloud on other people’s computers and your data is stored in their systems and you may or may not be able to get it out easily.
All the data is based on page views, and they seem to support non-javascript, which means they don't even have the possibility of detecting a lot of bots.
It’s all just a bogus data. Over 10% drop in windows market share in few months, that recovered after few more months? How can anyone believe data like this?
The Steam Hardware Survey is a survey on the population of a gaming storefront. Despite Valve’s own efforts, Linux is still very much a second-class citizen in the gaming world. StatCounter might not be the most accurate predictor ever but, as a web analytics tool, is going to be more representative of the population at large that gaming microcosm.
Steam survey might also additionaly be skewed away from GNU/Linux. In all those years I have never gottent the survey popup on any of my GNU/Linux machines (except Steam Deck), but have gotten it many time on Windows when still using it, and on the Windows machine at work which I have to use to test stuff it was also shown regularly. Not one single time on GNU/Linux machines. Is this widespread? If it is then I guess there should be even more of uss according to Steam survey.
Linux mainly since the end 90s. Most of it with i3. There is simply nothing more productive for me. It feels handicapped using anything else; it feels actually clunky when I see other people using something else.
I was wondering this as well. I guess it's really a game system, but it is running Linux (a Debian derivative, right?) on PC hardware. Of course one of the problems of Linux is that there's really no singular OS - I'd be curious to see the top 5/10 distros.
I would say it does, r at least it can. After-all they do have a desktop mode you can switch to and it has a full proper KDE Plasma desktop there to use.
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I keep a Windows 11 partition on my primary for games. Otherwise I would be full-time Linux on my personal machines.
This could just be because at some point everything I did was either in a terminal or browser (when did that happen?) and Windows always seems to be sitting around waiting for you to open some windowed app.
I looked at Windows around 1993. Couldn't believe how primitive it was for a GUI.
I kid. I've been using Debian as my main OS since about 2012. Once Steve Jobs signed Flash's death warrant, Linux as a desktop became feasible.
Its bitter sweet though. Linux is feasible because everything is on the web, which is worse than what we had before.
What do you mean?
Also all the “free software” is in someone else’s server.
Now the software, all runs on the cloud on other people’s computers and your data is stored in their systems and you may or may not be able to get it out easily.
Today our situation is far worse than that, our data is held and processed by third parties.
The advantage of the latter is so great that Big Tech no longer cares of you run some weirdo OS. They own you anyway.
May 2023, for example, screams unfiltered bots:
https://gs.statcounter.com/os-version-market-share/android/m...
Their Firefox market share figures are refuted by Cloudflare Radar (which doesn't rely on tracking scripts), for example.
https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide
StatCounter provides the most optimistic estimate available. Another data point is from Steam, which says 1.76%. https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey?platform=combined
I understand, just citing it to put a pin in the lower end of the range. I'd bet on ~3% actual.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38853877
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39252801
In the sense that it's a "victory" over Windows, no, since it's entire purpose is to emulate Windows APIs well enough to run Windows software.
Also, web browser's in cars or some new phone browser.
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