Linux has less than half of Linux’s desktop share
Linux has less than half of Linux’s desktop share
It would be twice as much if people could stop arguing about who counts and who doesn't
Not mine but sounds like a showerthought to me. TL;DR ChromeOS is the “wrong” version of Linux and has 4% while GNU/Linux has 3%
Y'all have some wierd showers.
Interesting read. I was genuinely surprised to read that ChromeOS has 4%+ desktop market share. It’s not popular at all where I am from. I’ve never ever seen one in person.
A lot of schools use Chromebooks for their students. They're cheap laptops that are easier to administer than Windows.
And safer
I used to sell laptops. Most of my customers were elderly people who only needed to watch Netflix, do their banking, check emails, etc. Chromebooks flew off the shelves.
It was the College-bound kids who insisted on a proper laptop.
Probably for schools with chromebooks. I've never seen one in the wild either.
Extremely old and extremely young people get them
Chromeos isn't counted with Linux's marketshare.
TBF it is also not really a
linux experiance, tho i do see what you mean.You could say the same thing about other distros that hide the difficult bits, tbh. Is Endless Linux? What about Elementary?
The thing about Linux is that it's extremely flexible, and there's a lot of choices about interface and user experience.
So what is it about ChromeOS that makes it not Linux? Is it that it doesn't have GNOME, KDE, XFCE or the hundreds of other DEs? Is it that you don't need to use the terminal for anything? I mean, it's not the kernel or the userland or even the compiler...
So what is it?
I think it's valuable to make the distinction, whether it's based on linux or not. Just like it's valuable to make the distinction between unix and macOS.
Because despite all that sophistic nonsense, one of those allows an already too powerful corporation to extend its monopoly into the hardware realm, while reducing user agency.
Never understood why "market share" matters to so many Linux enthusiasts. It's not like Linux is a product that needs to generate revenue.
Because the biggest practical downside of Linux is a lack of natively developed big name software. It’s annoying to find some great software that perfectly meets your needs and then discover than it can’t run with decent performance on Linux.
Market share growing means that Linux becomes a better and more accessible option.
So Linux is actually 7% desktop share.
Awesome!
That's the great news I needed to read tonight
Now to add to the distro wars as to 'which distro is better than which', we're gonna have 'what is real linux and what isn't real linux' on top of that eternal debate? Lovely...
Which distro is best?
Hannah Montana OS > mine > yours
We've already had that with Android
Bunch of goofy wordplay passed off as tech news. But while we're here, how are they gonna say it's technically Linux because it uses a Linux kernel but isn't really Linux because of the OS on top of it when Linux is literally just the kernel?
Goofy.