EDIT (2025-12-19T09:08Z): Whoops! I totally didn’t see that this had already been posted to this community [2]. I didn’t mean to repost it. My bad!

References
  1. Type: Image. Title: “Traffic by Operating System”. Publisher: [“Pornhub”>“2025 YEAR IN REVIEW”]. Published: 2025-12-03. Accessed: 2025-12-16T23:00Z. URI: https://www.pornhub.com/insights/2025-year-in-review.
    • Location: §“Traffic by Operating System”.
  2. Type: Post. Title: “Linux traffic has grown 22.4% in PH this year”. Author: “maam” (“@[email protected]”). Publisher: [“sh.itjust.works”>“Linux” (“[email protected]”)]. Published: 2025-12-09T1;31:57Z. Accessed: 2025-12-19T09:10Z. URI: https://sh.itjust.works/post/51299445.
  • Phegan@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    It’s the year of the Linux desktop, baby. Been waiting 40 years for it. And will be waiting 40 more

    • FishFace@piefed.socialEnglish
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      9 days ago

      A percentage increase is a relative increase. The thing you’re thinking of would be described as “percentage points”.

      It’s somewhat misleading to talk about a large percentage increase on a small base, though.

      • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works
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        9 days ago

        A percentage increase is a relative increase. The thing you’re thinking of would be described as “percentage points”.

        Yes, as I pointed out it is technically correct. Just a misleading first impression.

    • DupaCycki@lemmy.world
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      9 days ago

      It’s not at all misleading. That’s how percantages work. It plainly says ‘+22.4%’, which is fully factual and accurate. Your ‘actual 1% increase’ is a false statement. It’s a 1 percentage point increase, which is completely separate from the regular percantage.

    • Kalcifer@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
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      9 days ago

      I’m struggling to understand why you think the title is misleading. Could you elaborate on your rationale to help me understand? 🙂

      Do you perhaps have an alternative title that you would suggest? Would you be satisfied by something like, for example, “Pornhub saw a 22.4% increase in Linux traffic (from [e.g.] 5% to ~6%) over 2025”?

      • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works
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        9 days ago

        Sure! As is currently written, it gives the first impression (to me, at least) that the traffic share of Linux has jumped from x% to (x+22)%. Now I understand that this is subjective, but I believe that’s how many people would read it at first glance as well.

        Again, there’s nothing technically inaccurate about it, but the 22% number there is imo distracting and tends to lead to misunderstandings. I would personally write it as “Pornhub sees Linux traffic share increase from 5% to 6% (22.4% increase) over 2025”

    • dakoriki@sopuli.xyz
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      9 days ago

      Well it is an increase of 22,4 percent but at the same time an increase of 1 percentage point. So both are correct. But as we know bigger number more better so thats what we got

    • pivot_root@lemmy.world
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      9 days ago

      It doesn’t work like that. They use the self-reported user agent from the web browser that is requesting the page.

      • towerful@programming.dev
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        9 days ago

        Something about porn leading the way, something about DVDs winning, something about VHS winning.

        All of that doesn’t matter.
        Because Linux desktop (in my experience, KDE Plasma and Wayland) along with distros that do sensible things (I use EndeavourOS btw) are just SO much better that Windows.
        I only boot windows for software I have to run windows with fullscreen or GPU based software that doesn’t exist on linux

        • Prove_your_argument@piefed.socialEnglish
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          9 days ago

          Why do you think Wayland is better than x11?

          Mostly asking from a user experience angle. I know Wayland supports some features x11 doesn’t. What I’ve read also makes x11’s code sound like a big mess, but that doesn’t seem to be a problem for usability.

          I’ve struggled a bit with getting games to run after moving to pop os 24.04 from 22.04 and I think the problems are Wayland related for much of it, but I haven’t tried other distros to rule out cosmic.

            • Prove_your_argument@piefed.socialEnglish
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              9 days ago

              I was just asking because he explicitly said wayland (and not x11)

              Is it a bad question to ask? I’m trying to learn and understand the reason why.

              Some minor performance gains seem to be the tangible improvement thus far, but that assumes the application will be compatible with it. The rest is I hear is security and “active development” alongside the difficulties.

            • devfuuu@lemmy.world
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              7 days ago
              • VRR
              • HDR
              • Multiple screens with different resolutions and proper pixel density being usable
              • Lower power consumption
              • Color management with all the other features working on top also
              • …
          • DrDystopia@lemy.lol
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            9 days ago

            Wayland is a “new” windowing system so not all software support it, or look the same as on X11.

            From what I understand, Wayland will support many new features but is under continuous development.

            One of the examples of Wayland modernity is that Waydroid allows users to run Android apps but require Wayland to be able to. It’s kind of in the name I suppose.

          • MalReynolds@piefed.socialEnglish
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            9 days ago

            Eh, we could talk about security and the ancientness of X11, but the fact is wayland is where the dev is happening , you may lag a bit with LTS kernels, but it’ll get there.

            Still wish I could cast an apps window to another machine (someone got a way with wayland) but otherwise with a modern kernel it significantly outperforms X. Give Bazzite a whirl, you’ll see.