Even 3% is not insignificant. Especially when you consider that most computers come with Windows pre-installed. Imagine how that would change if Linux came pre-installed.

And those numbers really start to skew in favor of Linux when you exclude markets like China. IIRC when you exclude China for desktop marketshare stats Linux alone (not including “other”) jumps closer to 10%.

Can we also include WSL?

There are 3 options for dns over https in Firefox and none of them work.

Then you did something wrong.

Ya, I kinda figured that’s what you might mean, and in that case it’s entirely wrong.

Long uptimes used to be a point of pride for admins with how long they could keep a single boot session running. But these days a long uptime just means very outdated security patches.

“Never touch a running system” is very much the same vein now. You should constantly be touching the system for system maintenance and such.

A good chunk of that 4 billion have never used anything aside from a phone as a computing device. If you widdle that number down to only desktop users the Linux marketshare jumps to about 5%.

The one thing I cannot stand about Edge is that if you want to use it for some specific webapps, but still use another browser as the system default, it will always open links in Edge.

For example, I use Teams and Outlook for work. I have each of them as a PWA installed as a webapp. I used to have them via Edge, but use Chrome for everything else. But anytime I clicked on a link in an email or Teams message, it would open a new Edge window and ignore my system settings.

To be clear, I’m doing this on Ubuntu, and not Windows. So we’re not dealing with that anti-user choice crap that Microsoft does with Edge over and over.

Guaranteed reproducible builds

Any distro that uses Pipewire (most at this point) is incredibly stable with the audio setup.

PulseAudio was a bit rough at the beginning, but it got much better. But Pipewire at this point is hands down amazing.

Nobody wants to use them as a Desktop.

Except for millions upon millions of users, right? Screw those guys because they aren’t the majority.

it’s funny how the butthurt Firefox users downvote me for just talking about my experience with the browser.

Nobody is downvoting you for just talking. They’re downvoting you because you very clearly lack knowledge in what you’re doing but are blaming it on the browser.

typical layer 8 issue

🤣 I haven’t heard that one in a while!

Never touch a running system.

What does this even mean? You have to touch it to make changes, upgrade, improve, etc.

you can’t uninstall without rooting the device and risking your security.

I see you bought into the fear mongering. Rooting your device doesn’t compromise your security. Malware that uses an exploit to gain root access does compromise your security, but that’s independent of a user rooting.

Even Microsoft has stated that the majority of the servers being run on Azure are Linux. An MSP usually manages small businesses and maybe a couple midsized businesses. And then ask the doctors clinics, dentist offices, etc.

Most small business owners are stuck in the early 2000s “can’t use some weird open source commie crap made by some kids in his mom’s basement to do real work” mentality.

I worked at an MSP myself for a number of years and the fear of anything not Microsoft was palpable.

Wait, that’s real?

I thought it was just some dumb name that someone came up with for this meme!