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"surge"
my god we're talking about reaching a whopping 5% marketshare, can we please fucking stop it with the soyfacing until it's at least 10%?
going :OOO over 5% feels so incredibly sad, it's like bragging about your wealth because you found a coin under your sofa
Businesses still use it. The EU gov is switching to Linux, or maybe just once country, but you get the point...
Can we also have an open source surge against Android, with valid providers in all countries?
We totally can, but not yet. Postmarket is trying hard AF.
The whole Voice/SMS/VoLTE/DataLTE side of things is proprietary, so they're reverse engineering it, but it's painfully slow. Probably once they crack it open, the industry will try to protect it behind encryption and DRM.
No, because the "surge" in market share is almost certainly driven not by the average user's love of open source software, but by the average user simply letting their laptop die as they switch to phones and tablets as their sole computing devices. Windows users aren't becoming Linux users. They are becoming Android users.
I personally like Android
What we need is better AOSP
I think android would be a better base to build on. don't look at their messy kernel, but the userspace. rip out the brainded, user-hostile limitations that google added in recent years, or reimplement them better, and it's pretty good.
sure continue pmos development, and plasma mobile and other components, but don't just ditch out a system that has worked well for so many time and been developed by lots of people by a company who has poured in lots of money
The year of the Linux desktop isn't as interesting anymore. It all sort of works good enough for most people not to need to care now.
What we need is the year of the Linux phone. And it think that we will have to still wait a long time for it. And no, Google/Linux does not count.
The interesting part wasn't gatekeeping with technical difficulty, but MS loss of marketshare and loss to large corps.
Here is as close as I could find to the source data. Unfortunately, everything is listed in terms of "market share" which is great for "back slaps for the boys", but less great for generating hypotheses for actual causes. What I would like is the raw numbers - what were the total devices for each OS?
My bets for what are driving this change, from least to most likely:
Here is a different (in my opinion probably better) source: https://analytics.usa.gov/
It also shows Linux above 5%. I agree that most people are switching to phone and/or tablet, but: the total devices are increasing AND the total number of phone/tablet devices are increasing AND the linux share is increasing
I would expect that as the denominator (all devices which includes an ever increasing number of phone/tablet) increases that Windows, mac and linux would decrease. I am surprised (and happy) that Linux is increasing!
Hmmm.... Interesting! Maybe I'm mistaken
Regardless of right and wrong you made interesting content for Lemmy!
That site shows OS usage on all platforms, mobile and TV included. If you select "current calendar year" as the time frame (to smooth out short term changes), the total desktop OS (Windows, Mac, Linux, Chrome OS) usage is about 50%, Linux usage is about 6%. 6% out of 50% is 12%. So, according to that site, Linux usage is about 12% if you consider only desktop OSes.
That is my naive reading of the data also. And it makes me very happy.
Okay Linux users, no snark about this distro is better than that one. We're all just one happy family.
It really could be more if the linux user community could agree on things and stop gatekeeping - which seems to be the only thing most online active linux users can agree on "ermagerd eternal september" 🙄
Anti Commercial-AI license
You know they steal books by the library right? How is this line supposed to do anything? It reminds me of the Facebook copy and paste spam like "Don't make my photos publicly available" after the person already uploaded a million photos on their page
Not really the same, as Facebook ToS means they own everything you upload. Not the case here.
It's a little badge they like to wear.
Used to be a lot longer and more annoying.
You know they steal books by the library right?
You know they steal books by the library right?
Who steals books from the library? The Creative Commons Org? I tried looking it up online and can't really find what you are referring to.
Do you mean that they literally take books from the library and never return them, or do they copy library books an slap a new license on them? Are the books that they do that to in the public domain?
who
People who make AI models
steal
they steal data for AI
by the library
"by the ___" is an expression for quantities
Ah, I see what you are saying. Thanks for taking the time to explain.
I guess I'm confused what that licence has to do with AI though.
I know onlinepersona put AI on the end of that link, but from what I can tell it's just a normal copy left license.
I guess some conceivably could put such a licence on an AI generated thing, but I'm not sure they would be able to enforce it unless the model wasn't trained on stolen data.
They might be able to copyright the prompt though.
Idk, we will probably have to rely on the courts to determine something like that, which means we will get the worst possible outcome.
I think a big part of this is PC builders choosing an OS. There is so much content on YouTube about switching to Linux, and people have experience with the Steam Deck as well, which also factors in.
That's me now! Yayyy!
Yup! Just installed it on my laptop after several tries running into bugs during install. My desktop is next, but I'm not ready for the headaches of figuring out a dual-boot yet. I'm mentally preparing for it, though, so fingers crossed.
So I might as well ask beforehand: Does anyone have a preferred tutorial for it? I prefer a recommendation to going in blind.
Hello. Not really a tutorial but a bit of advice: get a new internal SSD from Amazon and install it on that, leaving your Windows drive alone. It is a lot less of a headache if Linux is on a dedicated drive.
I don't think it needs a tutorial, it's automatic. but some advice: