Linux has achieved a new record on desktop. 2.53% market share.

>>61690349
This is the year of Linux on Desktop!

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Truly the year of the Linus Desktop

I hope it continues growing, those are good news!

>>61690349
It's getting stronger

>>61690349
That number could be significantly higher because that's just the number of known installs

2.53% doesn't sound like much but in reality we took 1/4th of Apple's marketshare.

That's a real threat.

>>61690959
Holy shit, you're right. It might even surpass macOS or Windows!

This is actually impressive

Wasn't it at like 0.7% for years?

>>61691079
I don't think it would be that high, but definitely much higher.

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It's happening!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-H1T7ny2Uw

http://www.techrepublic.com/article/open-source-predictions-for-2017/

LMAOOOOOOOOO

Is this supposed to be sardonic? Because this is great. Given that the Chromebook meme is dead, it heavily implies that GNU/Linux is gaining solid ground through merit and improvement.

>>61690349

What the fuck is happening to the Mac usershare ? I thought macfags would sooner burn their turtleneck sweaters and stop drinking latte than abandon Apple ?

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>>61690349
Is this because people are not using desktop computers any more?

>>61690349
Where do they get this info from? nobody asked me.
Its probably from the same people who ran the polls for the election

>mfw we are almost half of apples whole marketshare

>mfw /v/tards cant understand fractions and only look at the percentage number and thing its low

>mfw apple is done for

>>61691259
Android and iOS and MacOS.

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>>61691264
>nobody asked me.
Yes they did, whenever you visited one of the 7,000 websites that includes their API in the background.

The only people who aren't getting polled are MAYBE NoScript users, which means that Linux is probably underrepresented a bit

>>61691270

You can only get so far with overpriced hardware.

>>61691220
>Wasn't it at like 0.7% for years?
No it was 2% in june 2016

>>61691258
Apple's hardware is legitimately going downhill

Lately people are getting new iMac and MacBook Pro iterations that are objectively inferior to previous ones, and the new MacBook Retina is a 100% cancer product

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>>61690349
Just another 30 years and maybe it'll reach 5%.

>>61691287
This doesn't include mobile systems too.

>>61691325
Why would a "desktop market share chart" include mobile systems

Quite a lot of my nomie friends have dropped Windows as their main OS after 10 came out and are dualbooting Ubuntu/Mint.
Thanks Microsoft.

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>>61691287
>Windows XP

>>61691287
2017:
>pantsu.cat become biggest successful from /g/
>cloveros become real
>ntr still try going
>linux reach the marketshare of 2.53%
>anime will become real
>apple and microsoft still release only shit things
LIVING A DREAM, /g/.

>>61691259
Normalfags prefer spending 1k on a dual core crapbook cause muh portability

>>61691312
> implying linux doesnt dominate the server, mobile and supercomputer market

>>61691287
I use noscript and ublock.

>>61691253
Linux, you mean?
nobody sane uses GNU/*-distributions

>>61691347
>Quite a lot of my nomie friends have dropped Windows as their main OS after 10 came out and are dualbooting Ubuntu/Mint.
those aren't normies lol

I think the biggest uptake is probably among developers, looking at the Stack Overflow 2017 survey, Linux is increasingly popular as a developer platform:

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2017#technology-most-loved-dreaded-and-wanted-platforms

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2017#technology-platforms

>>61691312
>that image is now irrelevant

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>>61691287
How did windows 7 usage increase?

>>61692052
If he changes it to 3% it'll be relevant for another 20 years.

>>61692068
XP, they stopped holding on and finally upgraded

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>>61692052
>>61692079
Easy.

>>61692612
>being so autistic he had to edit his own OC
You must be fun at parties

Where is this data from?

>>61692673
Linux.com.

>>61691079
It wouldn't be unreasonable for GNU/Linux to surpass MacOS in the desktop market, what with ChromeOS. Even if you consider MacOS to take up the more generous amount of 10% of the market.

The uncertainty of free software and who's using it isn't just a desktop thing. Look at the server market. We know that ~60% of servers run either a BSD image (so basically FreeBSD) or GNU/Linux, but we don't have the ability to distinguish the two operating systems from one another, just because people may not want to disclose that they're using free software, and that's their prerogative.

Mac is getting wrecked!

and people call linux users autists?
they barely have more marketshare than linux LOL

>>61690959
>>61691228
Wrong. There are huge number of PCs running pirated Windows. A few stealthy basement dwellers won't overcome that with their unaccounted for Linux installs, and the true Linux market share might even be smaller than the figure we have on the graph.

MICRO$HAFT AND APPLE BTFO AND FINISHED AND BANKRUPT YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP IS NOW

>>61693055
Will Microshit EVER recover?

>>61692068
There was a mass exodus from XP to 7 around 2013-2014.

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>it's time, steve
>activate it

>*click*

>>61690516
>I hope it continues growing, those are good news!
Believe me, it's not.

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>>61690349
>linux grew
>windows grew
>applel shrank

lmao

I am pretty sure that this stat is lowered, because there is no 100% certain way of measuring number of desktop linux users. But, anyway, growing is good, and predictable - in about 5 years Linux distros on desktop became much more easier to use and configure (if you want).

>>61690349
>>61690959
How is it actually calculated? Most GNU/Linux distros don't have built in spyware like Windows or OS X that phones home. So how we know the percentage of Linux users?

>>61693363
From UserAgent string.

>>61692854
they are more autistic
> paying tons of bucks for a privative, non-customizable, non-upgradable and overpriced OS with crappy hardware

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>>61693285
>people saw this shit and said "Fuck it, I'm going back to Windows"

>>61693181
explain it

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>>61693470
>Done

How can a person not use linux?

>>61693486
GAHNOO+LOONIX freetards are hipster shitheads and don't want more people using it because then they're not so le unique anymore

Either that or they're delusional and think if it gets popular then it will become ""dumbed down"" or something, despite the fact that the whole idea is that it's free software so if you don't like one distro you can just use another or make your own.

The constant missing dependencies when I try to install some .deb on ubuntu is really driving me crazy.

https://www.netmarketshare.com/faq.aspx#Methodology

>>61693502
i'm not unemployed

>>61693514
lol, what about actually using OS as an OS. Have you thought about it, retard? People are not using linux because it's cool, people are using it because they like it more, then any other OS out there.

>>61693514
Shut up stupid nigger

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FINALLY, THIS WILL BE THE YEAR OF WOBBLY WINDOWS AND SPINNING CUBES!

LINUX UBER ALLES!

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How will macfags ever recover?

>>61691526
It was actually $1225 and has a great touchscreen and 512GB NVME drive

>>61693515
Linux only works as long as you always use the command line.

Its pretty much dos reincarnated. With a gui which is only usable if you do some file editing or browsing.

>>61693569
Dude, how it is in 2012?

>>61693560
There's a difference between rabid freetards and people who just use linux because it's the best choice. The former has an obsession with pushing new users away because they are worthless people and their entire identity revolves around being a linux user, if it becomes popular then they lose what makes them special in their low self-confidence eyes. Your seething defensive reply leads me to believe you are one of these people.

>>61693584
Where'd you pull this BS from? I've been putting old people on Linux and they don't even know what the CLI is.

>when you realize all the shills are mac users who are triggered that they only own 2/3rds more than linux and cant even compete with windows


APPLE CAN BARELY COMPETE WITH UNPAIDS HIPPIE PROGRAMMERS

BAHAHAHAAA

>>61693569
>gimmick

>>61693514
wow, you are mad about linux

>>61693651
nice reading comprehension retard

>>61693599
Well you are wrong, because you are ignoring that fact that there is also literally same elitist who use Mac OS and Windows. There is always that kind of people, and they are the minority. Most of Linux users will be happy with market share grow, because it will eventually pull more attention from both programmers, who will participate in development and bugfixing, and companies, who will more willingly make their products for linux, because there is people who will use it. So stop projecting you elitism towards everyone else.

>>61693660
>elitist
elitists *
quickfix

>>61690349
neat

>>61690349
As Linux grows, will we start to require anti-virus on our machines? With more attackers switching from attacking windows users?

>>61693657
I'm not the one who can't jive with the Linux crowd, bro.

>>61693660
I'm aware the rabid freetards are a minority, but I didn't say anything about the "majority" ever, I was responding to someone who wanted to know why a certain anon said growing market share was a bad thing. Please actually follow the conversation instead of attempting to insert yourself into the middle of it without actually knowing what's being discussed

>everyone who says mean things is projecting
Weak.

>>61690349
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems#Market_share_by_category

So, what is the best looking distro with the largest repos?

>>61693686
I doubt it. More likely, we will end with easy to use one-per-application-or-two sandboxes, because it's easier to fix vulnerability, than try to prevent it happening every time.

>>61693546
And?

>>61693686
Maybe for the noobs, but most of the time software is just fixed so there's not a mess of security holes in the first place.

Linux operates on most phones because android is Linux kernal based! Just buy an android laptop and you have in essence a Linux laptop.

>>61693722
Objectively Ubuntu is still the king of Linux in the same way 7 is the king of Windows

Nobody likes Ubuntu, though

>>61693754
Wrong. Linux market share has nothing to do with Android market share - they are being treated separately, and Android is actually more popular, than Windows, if you count mobile and desktop OS together.

>>61693710
You said it like every linux user is elitists. Go read your own posts.

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>>61693569
I thought that this gimmick would actually be neat in VR.
But then I considered that, if you were interfacing with your computer via VR, you could be inside that cube instead, and the cube could be massive. It could have 80K IMAX screens per side, and you spin it around you. Or, better yet, you just have windows in free space that you position at will, independent of a set planar display. You could have network and hardware activity and temperatures floating on the "ceiling". You could wave a slack window down as a peripheral box in your lap as massive IDE windows surround you.
And then you reach for your mug which is only visible in meatspace and spill coffee all over your desk.

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>>61690349
>mfw normalfags will never take over ganoo slash linux and therefore ruin it

>>61693811
Learn to read. In my very first post I mentioned "GAHNOO+LOONIX freetards" specifically, and then in every subsequent post I was very clear to make the distinction between these freetards and normal Linux users, in case the exaggerated nature of the first post wasn't enough of a hint.

What I find interesting is how macOS only has 6.22% but yet you see Macs everywhere. They are all over campuses, startups, graphic design offices, web dev offices, etc. They just must all be in the US.

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>>61693841
Same. Every normalfag has a Macbook and an iPhone. I'm the only autist with either a massive 800 lb big black Windows laptop.

>>61693660
you are seriously delusional if you don't think linux has a far bigger elitist problem than other communities, windows/mac users may be elitist towards users of different operating systems, but they are rarely so towards users of the same operating system - instead being helpful to them. linux users are openly hostile towards other linux users who they perceive to be "stupid" (anyone who can't compile their own kernel blindfolded with their hands tied behind their back in under 10 keystrokes)

>>61693841
Its an age group thing, you're likely in college were they buy macs with mommies money

>>61693869
Linux has merit based immigration system

Instead of deportation you get shamed out

>>61693584
You are now painfully aware that you know less about Linux than my grandmother. Update your bait, the millenium changed a long time ago.

>>61693569
>Remember friend's step-dad having this in 2008
>thought he was a l33t hax0r
>used it on a shitty desktop that could barely multitask
>apparently just used it to fuck around playing starcraft or look at porn while people were around

I dont know if it was supposed to be the same as workspaces, but it was one of the first crazy computer things I saw

>>61691526
I don't know why I laughed.

>>61693839
Learn to express your mind, if you want to say that linux market share grow is bad news for elitists, don't say that it's bad news because elitists will complain.

>>61694039
Please follow the conversation.
An anon said that growing market share was bad, another anon replied to him asking why, I replied to that anon explaining why that anon thinks it's a bad thing (he is an elitist freetard).

>>61694136
Why do you even bother? He's an idiot, that much is clear.

>>61694136
Oh, ok, my bad, though your post wasn't that clear.

>>61691312
The Linux kernel is used in ~99% of the world's top 500 supercomputers.

>>61694605
irrelevant, we're discussing desktop usage

>>61694605
>The Linux kernel is used in ~99% of 0.000001% of the world's computers.

Ok.

>it's probably even higher because a ton of people fake useragents to minimize fingerprinting

>>61690349
this just means people cant take any more microshaft unfortunately

No wonder it grew
KDE is actually usable now

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>>61690383
Why does Linux use Windows??? Is Apple so bad?

>>61692068
XP died and people skipped Vista.

>>61695214
Compatibility reasons.
Yes.
>Want to repair overpriced product
>You have 2 options bring it to a repair center or do it yourself and void warranty
>With A) they dont repair anything, only replace and charge you $400-600
>With B) you spend $2 replacing a fucked up chip or fuse
>But if you repair or change a single piece of your iPhone its bricked forever.

>>61690349
How bad will windows need to get before normies switch en mass?
Really makes you think.

>>61690349
Where do these and the browser stats come from and how are they collected?
I and countless others spoof any information like that so I've always wondered how they could possibly be at all accurate.

>>61696010
systemd

>>61692999
>the true Linux market share might even be smaller than the figure we have on the graph.
Considering most Linux users use Firefox with noscript, agent spoofers, and whatever else, I'd be willing to bet the real numbers are actually a point or two higher, at the very least. Still, nothing to gloat about, though.

>>61696010
>I and countless others
An absolutely miniscule minority in comparison to the actual number of people using the OS, it's likely statistically irrelevant even for Linux. It's not just user-agents either.

https://www.netmarketshare.com/faq.aspx#Methodology

>>61697233
Lmao, you aren't anonymous even like that.

Netmarketshare don't separate GNU/Linux desktop and Chromebooks, statcounter does and GNU/Linux only has 1.5%.

Also for most of the world it is the begging of summer, the only people left sitting indoors on their computer is Linux users. Literally 80% of everyone I know has been phone-only the past 2 weeks with holidays and just being out with people.

>>61697233
That excuse works both ways because anyone without their head in the sand knows many more people using firefox and noscript on windows than they do on Linux.

>>61697233
My user agent says on Linux, even though I'm running Windows.

>>61691287
or they just used your user agent

>>61697276
I'm not claiming this gives you total anonymity. But I'm pretty sure nobody is going out of their way to correctly identify Linux users when they visit a website.

1% has 90% of the money, and 2% has 100% of linux desktops.
Nobody said life was fair.

>>61693514
Wow, you are a moron. The whole point of GNU us to create a free OS. Those who want to be "unique" and don't want "normies" using GNU are not supporters of GNU or the FSF, but merely a bunch of retards that use the OS because it feeds their ego to be "unique."

Real GNU supporters want more people to use it, so less people is mistreated by proprietary operating systems such as Windows and Mac OS and more people support free projects such as LibreOffice.

>>61697584
>but merely a bunch of retards that use the OS because it feeds their ego to be "unique."
aka most linux users lol

>>61697645
>most linux users
you mean Arch users

So now with the linux desktop reaching mainstream, what's the best underground desktop OS?

>>61698385
chromebook

>>61693152
It should be
>it's time Richard
>activate it

>*click*

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>>61690349
And I was wonder why the sudden shitpost on /g/. Microshit windrones are nervous.

>>61699194
Looking at this thread, it seems that you are the one who is shitposting.

>>61697740
But, I use Gentoo.

>>61698385
openBSD is shilled hard lately. Looks cool, has a wrong license, though

>>61690349
how mad would the jews be if a free OS like linux became 90% of the market share?

>>61699329
Can you imagine how much time and money they'd invest into trying to ruin it with proprietary bullshit?

>>61693722
KDE Neon :^)

>>61690349
WE SHALL RISE!

Now onto the next topic, Gnome or KDE? :^)

>>61690373
fpbp

>>61690349

Noice. I actually came to this board in lieu of my daily porn supplement to learn exactly about this system. I'm thinking of just creating a USB boot until I truly decide I like it. What are your favorite distros, /g/?

>>61700216
Gentoo, but it is not a particularly good choice for your stick testing. You might try Sabayon or something related like that.

>>61693411
that's ridiculous. your study then depends on a certain site, obviously facebook is going to have more windows users than linux. what about stack overflow? probably more linux than windows.

>>61700257
Thanks I'll take a look :D.