VPN services probably run on Linux
Vpn services doesn’t change your user agent typically
This would have zero effect on these metrics. A VPN only routes your connection through a server, which device identification is not affected by.
Statistical anomaly. This year they accidentally counted Jorkin Georg.
Isn’t this skewed by people using a dedicated faptop or dual booting to Linux for extra privacy?
MacOS getting a little side action, too.
PornHub is a treasure trove for… data science
I want SteamOS to turn into a general purpose OS so I can shitcan Windows for good!
There are already quite a few immutable distros you could use today like Bazzite or Fedora Atomic. The main advantage of SteamOS is that it’s tailor made for specific hardware, an advantage it would automatically lose as a general purpose OS.
Name me a feature SteamOS has that Bazzite doesn’t.
Do you have Bazzite installed on a Steam Deck?
I personally don’t, no. I have it installed on a PC though.
It’s got a reckognizable name and first party support from an actual company.
Isn’t it already in desktop mode? I swapped to linux and mostly use flatpaks on my main pc and havent looked back after a year.
I forgot I was using docked bazzite handheld as a pc for setup yesterday and started using it for my normal browsing. No differnce using zen there or on my pc, except the amount of tabs before I lag, way less resources but I didnt really experience issues (legion go s z2 go)
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?
