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Linux on the desktop breaks 4% for the first time on Statcounter (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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[–] Czele@lemmy.world 32 points 4 months ago (6 children)

And firefox has 3%. Its more unpopular to use firefox rather than linux lol

[–] OfficerBribe@lemm.ee 27 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

On desktop it is 7%. On desktop in Europe it is 10%. On desktop in Finland it is 15%.

For Linux, it seems like Asia is pumping the numbers with 5.8%. Linux use in Finland is 3.25%. Norway is 12.3%

[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

It's interesting that Asia is boosting Linux numbers when the Valve hardware survey showed the opposite. The numbers were recently updated to include China and it caused every OS to lose ground to Win10.

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

China windows is probably somehow more than 100 percent pirated and comes with additional spying and maybe crypto mining in the background.

[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I would love it if Valve secretly checked if Windows was genuine and put it in their stats.

[–] 0x4F50@feddit.ch 2 points 4 months ago

There is a MAS solution for windows that activates it on GitHub. I had to use it when the key I purchased a decade ago didn't work when I upgraded my hardware. I didn't want to pay a second time for an OS that was going to push Cortana, OneDrive, and ads at me.

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This blows my mind. I still daily drive Firefox on all 3 of my computers and my phone. I don't get the hate, and I feel it's the right thing to support in this monopoly market where the biggest browser is owned by an ad company.

[–] dumpsterlid@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

You have to understand, this late into the slow motion apocalypse the writers were starting to get eaten by hellhounds and so there is a lot of rushed writing/plot arcs that just doesn’t much sense when you look too closely because it isn’t like the lizard people were going to reduce the apocalypse guild writers quota just because some of them (most of them) had been eaten by hellhounds, the lizard people SENT the hellhounds so that would have just made the lizard people look incompetent.

I mean, it’s the same old enshittification thing and all you know the story.

[–] menemen@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The 3% is overall (including mobile). On the dekstop Firefox is at ~9%: https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/worldwide

[–] massive_bereavement@kbin.social 1 points 4 months ago

I use Chameleon, and probably some other users do, so I guess both the 4% and that 3% is skewed, though I guess not more than 1% or 2% even.

[–] turkishdelight@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago

Mozilla was mismanaged for years. The CEO is now out and hopefully the new leadership will do better.

[–] SeekPie@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

Probably because it's less popular as a pre-installed browser than the others and most less tech literate people use what's included with the OS.