Good job gooners.
Now that Linux is mainstream where do we move to feel elitist? DragonFly BSD? Redox OS?
The real elites shall forever be the Plan9 group. There’s dozens of users! Dozens!
HaikuOS
Create ExLisperOS and you’re good to go.
I preordered a Jolla. Chasing that “0.6 % Other” high.
SerenityOS is “a love letter to '90s user interfaces with a custom Unix-like core”.
It’s good enough to be proud of, while alienating normal people, not incidentally, like linux used to, but on purpose, like this sentence does, making it a great for elitists.Hmm I cannot find some community discussions about this on distrowatch but this looks surely awesome! I always wanted to go back to my childhoods computing interface – oh god I need that
But what type of kernel is this the new talk about “custom unix-like core”? So this is not linux, it is also not unix? Seems like it would bring me back the same fun of exploring some unknown os, like when I was 7 years old.
Perfect. Installing now.
Next year will be SerenityOS desktop year!
I thought it was not recommended to run on bare metal? There are some other obscure OSes that can run fine on bare metal (although Serenity is not really obscure in the foss space, only in the mainstream)
TempleOS
We just start the distro wars.
I’m on Debian. Is that niche enough?
Nope too mainstream. Try Kali Linux at least.
Did they not rebrand to ParrotOS or smth?
Again? It used to be called something else even further back.
It must be part of the “security through making it hard to search for online” strategy.
The Distro Wars have already been raging for decades now.
Year of the Linux gooning
Linux usafe has surely grown, but I think a laege percentage of that are AI crawlers and shit like that.
The Philippines has been a lot in the news lately, did not expect them to be an inspiration for the Linux world as well.
Useragent counts towards this?
Yeah it’ll be a naive check of just Useragent, so some of these will be bots, some will be spoofed, etc
I’m doing my part!
Heh, my “part”
angry upvote 😡
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?
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.
Surely there are people who bought Chromebooks for college? Or boomers who bought the $245 Chromebook instead of the $285 Win10S manufactured ewaste laptop?
Also probably some folks who bought a Chromebook in bulk from a school for pennies on the dollar.
That’s the winning hypothesis, dumpster diving gooners.
Those are cheap and rugged. I bought a reconditioned Chromebook Think Pad for $30. I want to put Linux on it. But I haven’t found my 'roundtoit yet.
Inadvertently contributed to this statistic lol
Genuine curiosity from someone not deeply familiar with the details - what sort of operating systems fall under “Other” for desktops?
BSD, Haiku and pretty much anything that hides or manipulates the user agent string.
Pretty much everything other than TempleOS. FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Haiku OS, Redox OS, Sculpt OS etc.
Imagine TempleOS for PH :) I’m not saying I don’t think it happens … but the irony.
Well, technically it’s not possible since OS doesn’t have network connection. At least unless someone learns C† and implements network connection into it. If Terry said it would be complicated, it’s probably a hard task. :)
Here’s an option :)
That’s… something I wasn’t expecting. :)
So if anyone does manage to hack TempleOS to have an internet connection, they probably earn the right to wank freely without losing the right to go to heaven right?
People who use Linux probably just have less sex and watch porn instead ;)
Wrong. If that were true, it wouldn’t have suddenly gone up 22% this past year.
…I wonder, did something happen recently that might have led to an influx of incels/cucks/betas into the chad Linux community?
I thought our primary way of producing new Linux users was sexual reproduction and then indoctrination from birth…
Could this just be AI scrapers running Linux?
I’m more willing to bet this is VPN servers running linux
That’s not how browsing over a VPN works. Your user-agent is still the one of your browser on your computer.
It’s better to stay away from windows if you’re having a wank.
You don’t want an agentic AI to coach you through the process or relevant ads after?
Brilliant
That’d make a great switch to Linux billboard.
Linux marketshare is now big enough to fit tux inside the chart! We did it!
Exactly like the girls fantasized:
It’s the year of the Linux desktop
It’s funny to think there are already teenagers born in a year of the Linux desktop
Hey. It’s been a lonely year. Don’t shame me, bro.
But nobody did…
I watch porn sometimes. Period. No need too add guilt, shame or anything negative too that. It is somethin people do and is part of how people live their sexuality and that’s that.
I think this is YoY PP growth as a percentage, which might be unintentionally confusing.
