• a_person@piefed.socialEnglish
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      4 个月前

      Its going to end up 1-2 freak self hoster’s torrenting terrabytes of movies for the jellyfin servers instead of just streaming their porn, and thats why linux gets a marketshare.

      /s

    • psud@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      4 个月前

      I wonder if the numbers would be higher if there wasn’t so much crossover between Linux users and unwillingness to pay for stuff that can be gotten for free

  • pigup@lemmy.world
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    4 个月前

    I love when they give us this hard data. You can take this proof and shove it down hater’s throats and perhaps even in other parts of their body.

  • Jankatarch@lemmy.world
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    4 个月前

    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?

    • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      4 个月前

      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.

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      4 个月前

      Surely there are people who bought Chromebooks for college? Or boomers who bought the $245 Chromebook instead of the $285 Win10S manufactured ewaste laptop?

      • azimir@lemmy.ml
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        4 个月前

        I snagged a Chromebook back in 2016 and used it for 9 years. It wasn’t speedy, but for small time browsing, terminal use (I rooted it and put a real Linux distro in there), and media watching it was just fine.

  • Barbecue Cowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    4 个月前

    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.

    • JohnAnthony@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      4 个月前

      While that is a good point (and an xkcd I didn’t know), the stats say Linux also had the largest absolute growth, so it’s not quite as misleading as you make it out to be

    • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.caEnglish
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      4 个月前

      I’m as happy about this news as the next tech enthusiast, but bluntly, it’s not a big shift. Going from … What? 5% to 6%? That’s great and all but it’s hardly moving the needle.

      If we want a significant shift we need OEMs selling prebuilt PCs with some flavor of Linux pre-installed, that’s as easy to use as the competition (Windows/mac) with compatibility that’s both good enough and transparent enough that people don’t need to think about it much.

      Before we get Linux OEM PCs on store shelves, we need to figure out that last bit first.

      That still hasn’t happened yet. We can’t even agree what window manager should be used, nevermind any of the dozen or so other critical services on the system…

      The thing that makes Linux great is that anyone and everyone can, and does, make stuff for it. That’s also the thing that’s going to hold it back from being put on store shelves pre installed on prebuilt PCs.

      • squaresinger@lemmy.world
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        4 个月前

        If you look at the commercially successful variants of Linux (ChromeOS and Android), you’ll see that taking away freedom/choice was the first thing they did.

        And ultimately, if you are targeting the mass market, that’s almost required.

      • plyth@feddit.orgEnglish
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        4 个月前

        What? 5% to 6%? That’s great and all but it’s hardly moving the needle.

        It’s huge because the people who do the tech support in the families are moving.

        • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.caEnglish
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          4 个月前

          That’s an important step, for sure, but that’s not going to push the majority.

          I’m that guy for plenty of people and the number of times a conversation starts with “so I bought…” is crazy. It’s basically the first thing anyone says to me when they need help.

          • squaresinger@lemmy.world
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            4 个月前

            This.

            The one step that would really push a lot would be if you can go to your local electronics store and buy a PC there with Linux preinstalled and completely setup, just like you can with Windows, Mac and ChromeOS.

            That’s why the Steam Deck actually pushed the Linux market share quite a bit.

            I mean, there is a thing like that and it’s called Chromebooks, but we, the tech people, deemed ChromeOS not Linux enough and told everyone not to buy chromebooks.

            But still ChromeOS is by far the most popular Linux distro with about 5x the market share of the next most popular Linux distro (which is Arch, thanks to the Steam Deck).

      • Whelks_chance@lemmy.world
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        4 个月前

        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?

        • realitaetsverlust@piefed.zipEnglish
          1·
          4 个月前

          That user agent would make them easily identifiable and therefore blockable. It’s more likely that they are trying to hide as a legitimate user.