[plug] Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA

[DiffieHellman]

Hi Chris,

Warning; uncomfortable truth follows.

It will never be the year of; "Linux on the desktop", as Linux is only a kernel that doesn't operate on its own.

The year of the GNU/Linux desktop was around 1995, as you could finally use a recent computer in freedom again - alas that freedom was ripped away with the first (of many) proprietary program added to
Linux in 1995.


Statcounter percentages don't seem to be very reliable, as those are determined via reported useragents on a very limited subset of sites and many browsers in anti-fingerprinting mode do randomly choose
between a useragent that says "Windows" and "Linux" in it when running on GNU/Linux, which skews the results by an unknown amount.

Also, LiGNUx is listed as 2 separate stats, "Linux" (GNU/Linux) is listed at 5.03% and ChromeOS (Gentoo GNU/Linux with the freedom removed) listed at 2.71%, which totals 7.74%, not 5%.


Linux has been the most popular kernel for normies for years, as Android is the most popular OS for normies - although Android lacks GNU and by extension it lacks freedom.

>I wonder how much of a bump it got due to the recent PewDiePie videos?
I figure there a meaningful bump in usage of GNU/Linux due to the recent videos, as he omitted mentioning GNU (GNU is only written in a CC BY-NC 4.0 image that he is arguably infringing the license of due
to the commercial nature of the video (the video appears to have ads)).

There is no particular reason for someone to want to escape from windows or macos to GNU/Linux, unless it is explained to them the abuses and spying that macos and windows does and how the solution to
such problem is to install the GNU/Linux[-libre] OS, as GNU was written to respect the user, by respecting the users freedom.

There is the convenience and buzzword angle (it's popular to call Linux "open source", but it's not even source-available - the only fully source available version of Linux I've seen, that is also
free software, is GNU Linux-libre), but not everything is more convenient - some things are made much harder or don't work at all - which makes such recommendation fall flat.

GNU/Linux has very high popularity now and most people who will use GNU/Linux are now using it - it doesn't really need more popularity - it rather needs less proprietary software added to it, as
every proprietary program added is a step away from the goal.

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Kind Regards, DiffieHellman