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Erik L. Midtsveen🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈1d ago

Meanwhile, desktop Linux has a 20% market share here in Norway! 🇳🇴

#Norway #Linux #MarketShare #Windows #OSX #MacOS #ChromeOS

MostlyHarmless 1d ago

nixCraft 🐧1d ago

Linux sysadmin returns from 1 week vacation with fresh, reenergized hatred for trouble ticketing system & now dreams of retiring to a cabin in the woods.

nixCraft 🐧1d ago

Back in my day, we bought things once and actually owned them. Imagine that! You'd get a CD, a movie, a game, or a piece of software, it was a tangible item with a set price that was all yours. No strings attached.

Now? Everything's a fucking subscription. It's like renting your life, but somehow it ends up being way more expensive in the long run. Go figure.

This is why open source matters a lot. It still gives you freedom and whenever possible please support your favourite FLOSS app 👍

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Edit: it wasn't because of Anubis. My bad. :<

~~~Today was the first time ever I hated Anubis. I hate scrapers even more, ofc, but c'mon, `wget src.tar.gz` used to just work :/~~~

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Erik L. Midtsveen🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈1d ago

Meanwhile, desktop Linux has a 20% market share here in Norway! 🇳🇴

#Norway #Linux #MarketShare #Windows #OSX #MacOS #ChromeOS

Silmathoron ⁂1d ago

@midtsveen
Wait, what? Is this real?

❍sz™ 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪1d ago

@midtsveen
🇳🇴❤️

joene extra 1d ago

@midtsveen Source: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/norway

Operating System Market Share Norway | Statcounter Global Stats

This graph shows the market share of operating systems in Norway based on over 5 billion monthly page views.

StatCounter Global Stats

joene extra 1d ago

@midtsveen 20.82% on desktop only https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/norway

Desktop Operating System Market Share Norway | Statcounter Global Stats

This graph shows the market share of desktop operating systems in Norway based on over 5 billion monthly page views.

StatCounter Global Stats

Erik L. Midtsveen🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈1d ago

@joeneXtra yes desktop Linux only! 😊❤

@midtsveen Nerdway

@midtsveen Finland seems to beat it

@midtsveen … and Germany

ah, never mind 😩

Erik L. Midtsveen🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈1d ago

@kurth @midtsveen It seems that Norway has used Linux more longer, but it is amazing to see that Linux usage in Finland exploded! Multiplied in one year by 5,5 from 4,28% to 23,64%💯 let's hope that it sticks

@midtsveen there does seem to be a correlation between countries with high rankings in the world happiness index and countries with high Linux usage.

Pau Cabrera 21h ago

@hedders @midtsveen

Microsoft’s user raping does a lot I guess 😂😂

Hedders 19h ago

@cch MS trying to force a load of people to bin off perfectly good PCs does seem to have put a lot of people's backs up, for sure.

Why would they count MacOS and OS X separately, though? That's odd. They're the same OS, just a minor name change between versioning schemes (OS X: newversion=oldversion+0.1 -> MacOS: newversion=oldversion+1)

@rl_dane @midtsveen it looks like apple renamed os x to macOS at some point

@n1k0 @midtsveen

They did, but it's not a new OS, and shouldn't be counted separately. That's just weird. And I'm not even a Mac guy or anything. It'd be like counting Windows 10 and 11 separately.

@rl_dane @midtsveen Yeah I agree it looks a bit flaky

@n1k0 @midtsveen

I can't know the motivation of the person who made the chart, but one possible motivation would be to try to discount the Mac's market share.

I don't know that, though. And honestly, it's not a huge deal to me. I just thought it was a bit odd. ;)

@rl_dane @midtsveen MacOS 11 Big Sur was the first to support ARM, so it could be argued to be a major release and a “different OS”.

@forty2 @midtsveen

I mean, yeah, that's a big shift, but it doesn't make it altogether a different operating system.

I'd say the only shift that qualifies for that in the Macintosh world was Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X.

In comparison, the shift to Big Sur is more like Tiger to Leopard.

Kai Ahnung 1d ago

@midtsveen
Amazing.

David Bramian 1d ago

@midtsveen what do you mean "market share"? Are people paying for desktop Linux?

Laurens 🐐1d ago

@davbram @midtsveen A market share is not always an indication of sales. It's also an indication of market competitiveness, i.e. how well a product is doing compared with other products of the same category.

Linux distributions are free but still compete with other computer operating systems.

@davbram @midtsveen of course they do! (by investing their valuable time in spending how to configure and rice it)

David Bramian 1d ago

@tuxflo @midtsveen
You mean time spent putting ecchi wallpaper on a compiz cube counts as payment in-kind? I like the way you think. Definitely going to have some new deduction items this year

Dr. Øhm 1d ago

@midtsveen yet another reason to emigrate to Norway…

@midtsveen Meanwhile in italy it's somewhere in the 2.5% unknown...

@midtsveen Of course Finland would have a decent number also: 13.92%.

@auser @midtsveen on desktop OS number is 23,64% in Finland! Year ago 4,28% so amazing growth💯

Mastokarl 🇺🇦1d ago

@midtsveen strange, particularly as Sweden and Denmark are not that different from the global average. What‘s different about Norway?

(But you‘ve also always been on the forefront of EVs as well…)

Meanwhile, in Canada, it's 2.6%

@Kingu @midtsveen Way too much corposcum influence.

Although the USA continuing to demonstrate itself as hostile and Microsoft continuing to enshittify its software might might well fix that.

Amici Is Me 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇳🇴1d ago

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

Amici Is Me 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇳🇴1d ago

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?

Erik L. Midtsveen🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈1d ago

@amici maybe, who knows, I found it funny that desktop linux is over 20% here! 😆

Amici Is Me 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇳🇴1d ago

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

Erik L. Midtsveen🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈1d ago

@amici yeah! 🤔😆❤

@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 🐐1d ago

@zbrown @amici @midtsveen ChromeOS is mentioned separately in the graph (1.31%).

@ElBeeToots @amici @midtsveen so it is 😅

val = int(1)1d ago

@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?’.

SirPrise97🇦🇹🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈1d ago

@midtsveen Was in Norway two weeks ago. Found it amazing, now even better!

AhmadHKJ 1d ago

@midtsveen great 😃

VikThePunk 1d ago

@midtsveen Switching to Linux on my main machine next week. Been using it on my secondary laptop for 2-3 years now, and it's been great.

Seems that they even got VR working really well now.

William Wolf Moondel, Esq.1d ago

@midtsveen It hasn't been called OS X since 9/2016; what's going on there?

Pau Cabrera 21h ago

@MisterMoo @midtsveen

No clue, they even mention macOS separately

Sico Axial 1d ago

Could my eyes be witnessing this?

This is incredible. This is:

THE YEAR OF LINUX ON THE DESKTOP*

* on 20% of Norway desktops**

** some desktops are actually laptops

Joe Brockmeier (@jzb)1d ago

@midtsveen clearly I need to move to Norway. Can I claim asylum as a Linux user?

Erik L. Midtsveen🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈1d ago

@jzb 😉

@midtsveen Keep going Norway. Microsoft doesn't need your business. They don't need anyone's business. I'm sure Copilot will keep them company if they lose 100% of their market shares.

vozer 🎀1d ago

@midtsveen how is OS X so high still lol

Wildebest 1d ago

@midtsveen
This statistics might come from analyzing people's browser's user agents.