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Linux has less than half of Linux’s desktop share (www.theregister.com)

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Not mine but sounds like a showerthought to me. TL;DR ChromeOS is the “wrong” version of Linux and has 4% while GNU/Linux has 3%

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[–] Doods@infosec.pub 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If they support Macs then whatever these things' market share is, I suppose.

[–] sheepyowl@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Wikipedia is using this site as the source, and that site shows around 20% market share for Mac. Linux is at 3% and ChromeOS is at 4%, so if you combine them and double that it still isn't at 75% of the market share Mac has.

This isn't mentioning that dealing with Linux compatibility is more annoying than Mac or Windows compatibility. Macs are very uniform, Windows has a giant making sure everything is compatible, and Linux has 900 distros that will never agree to co-operate.

[–] havokdj@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

900 distros

Flatpak

[–] parrot-party@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Windows is also ridiculously good at backwards compatibility. Mac frequently just breaks old software and Linux is largely unconcerned because they assume anyone that cares will find a way. That backwards compatibility is over of the major keys to Windows success with developers.

[–] minh2134@programming.dev 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

But Linux is good at backward compatibility tho. Linus Torvalds leadership made sure that very few if at all any changes to the kernel will break existing userland. This means that if you have a program with their needed dependencies in the right version (which is easy with docker/flatpak/appimage) your programs will run flawlessly even if they are from the 90s.

[–] Aatube@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

I'm pretty sure that's just default userland and foreign packages still update frequently and kernel updates might've broken syscalls not used by default userland.

[–] parrot-party@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

Though Linux the kernel might be stable and considerate, Linux the ecosystem is not.