Linux market share passes 4% for first time; macOS dominance declines : linux

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 60 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I've been a Mac user since the late 80s and the news of its dominance has escaped me.

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 24 points 5 months ago (1 children)

~15-20% is nothing to sneeze at, but hardly dominance

[–] eerongal@ttrpg.network 13 points 5 months ago

Dominance*

*- if you ignore the actual dominant party

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 5 points 5 months ago

A lot of people in unis over here use macs

[–] firelizzard@programming.dev 4 points 5 months ago

I'm interpreting that as clickbait - just something they added to the title to drive traffic.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago

Maybe dominant in the USA? People venerate Malus products there.

But any tech company provides Macs now, not Linux hardware. They even boast about it in their job ads and use it as bait.

Anti Commercial-AI license

[+] c0smokram3r@midwest.social 54 points 5 months ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (5 children)

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[–] 555_1@lemmy.world 30 points 5 months ago (1 children)

[–] odium@programming.dev 17 points 5 months ago (2 children)

[–] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

[–] sneezycat@sopuli.xyz 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I build my own jokes!

-LFS

[–] SurvivalMariner@lemm.ee 4 points 5 months ago

[–] wiki_me@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 months ago

[–] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Whenever someone brings up distro wars in just remind them we're not using windows.

[–] crispy_kilt@feddit.de 4 points 5 months ago

Btw I use Debian

[–] vikingtons@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

And the Linux / Unix-specific ecosystem & technology arguments therein.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah and good luck mentioning that macOS is UNIX.

[–] Auzy@beehaw.org 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

That's the biggest issue

There are so many people in the community who attack developers.

I had a open source project which I started, it got a lot of media attention but I gave it up because so much of the community is toxic and just made me feel unsure about developing the idea further.

And lots of other developers are the same. Even with Lemmy, people weren't going to contribute, but they targeted the developers political beliefs.

And I see so much crap talking on Lemmy here because developers choose to use GitHub or discord. If you don't like that, contribute to the project, but don't try to dictate the project you have no involvement in

[–] ___@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

I blame developers who use discord. The interface is a mess, the company is enshitifying, and you can’t archive the past.

It maybe easier, but I question why anyone would willingly choose it over most anything else.

Note that this is different from being a dick about it and harassing people.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Dominance?! Ha!

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 5 months ago

Yeah only makes sense if you call it "desktop *NIX dominance" or maybe just "non-Windows dominance."

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 15 points 5 months ago

Year of the Linux Desktop lfg!!

[–] li10@feddit.uk 12 points 5 months ago

YOTLD

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

You're 4 months late

Also it went down to 3.77

[–] xilliah@beehaw.org 3 points 5 months ago

That's cuz the Linux users are enjoying the summer

[–] undefined@links.hackliberty.org 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I love Linux but I wish the BSDs weren’t getting left behind.

For the record, I really like macOS and Apple products as my “consumer” devices but all my side projects, web servers, routers, etc. run Linux. I ran FreeBSD for a long time until I got into containerization and Docker.

[–] Auzy@beehaw.org 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

People like Theo De Raadt might have had a fairly huge impact on killing BSD.

He might have alienated a lot of people from even considering bsd.

The Linux community also had a lot of help by vendors such as Suse and Redhat who had no problems implementing good ideas which were a bit toxic, but were available in windows. Commercial venders can make a massive difference (as well as government deployments).

The big problem has been people resistant to change

[–] undefined@links.hackliberty.org 1 points 5 months ago

What was the controversy there? I’m not familiar with him.

[–] olafurp@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

IT'S THE YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP!

[–] gwen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

[–] Fitik@fedia.io 3 points 5 months ago

@Blaze@lemmy.zip That's an old news article, from at least 3 months ago

[–] CodeBlooded@programming.dev 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Report: Linux was on 6.34 percent of computers last month if you count ChromeOS.

What are the reasons one wouldn’t count ChromeOS? I guess I don’t know much about it, is it somehow “less Linux” than your run of the mill Ubuntu/Debian, Arch, openSUSE, etc?

[–] Plavatos@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Count me in! Switched to Linux Mint for my DD last month.

Only thing I'm missing is a very dead simple 3D modeling replacement for the Windows one (the others have a steep learning curve). I'll have to find a browser based option...

[–] olafurp@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

It's unfortunate that the Adobe suite is not on Linux. FreeCAD and Blender are the standard of 3D modeling on Linux but Adobe Web has been picking up steam lately.

If you have two computers you can add the program to Steam on Windows and Stream it.

If it's not very performance heavy then you could run it in a VM and use something like Dropbox or Mega to sync your work through the Internet.

If the files are very large I'm not sure, but I think you might be able to mount a shared filesystem that's used by both the VM and the Linux host

[–] YourPrivatHater@ani.social 1 points 5 months ago

😎