Erik L. Midtsveen🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈Meanwhile, desktop Linux has a 20% market share here in Norway! 🇳🇴
Amici Is Me 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇳🇴I'm really curious as to who these people are who use Linux, because all the ones I know are from the fediverse, and we're not exactly representative of the average joe.
Maybe the linux users are overrepresented because they delete cookies more, and thus they seem like an entire new person, while Windows users are more basic and don't delete their tracks
But then I also checked Sweden and they somehow have just 2.59% market share. I don't understand why Norway would have nearly ten times more?
Could this be explained by VPNs operating from Norway, maybe? We re-route traffic from other countries?
@amici maybe, who knows, I found it funny that desktop linux is over 20% here! 😆
I truly wish that number was representative of reality! But I quite doubt it.
Linux desktop users: techies and academics. Ordinary people without a tech or academic background are totally absent from Linux use as far as I have experienced.
Not that Linux comes up often in discussion though
@amici yeah! 🤔😆❤
zbrown@amici @midtsveen I'd wonder what ‘Desktop Linux’ is taken to mean, does it include ChromeOS (schools?)? maybe appliances like ‘smart’-TVs are getting counted? Steam Decks particularly popular?
Laurens 🐐
val = int(1)@zbrown @ElBeeToots @amici @midtsveen Also I doubt "appliances like ‘smart’-TVs" are counted as the graph explicitly states "Desktop" at the bottom (though if it was counting all computerized devices they'd probably also be separate)
@val_int1 @ElBeeToots @amici @midtsveen I mean it depends how picky the categoriser is, if it's purely UA based it may not recognise whatever UA gets sent as non-desktop (if the UA even specifies that), or if it's using JS to inspect things like screen size, well a TV will pass a ‘greater than 12 inches’-type check just fine.
I know full well it says ‘Desktop’, the question is ‘what does that mean?’.