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    • Vilian@lemmy.caEnglish
      7·
      3 months ago

      Wasn’t that site that claimed they don’t count steam deck?, also, 90% of people only uses steam deck for gaming, not web browsing

  • mindlight@lemm.eeEnglish
    30·
    3 months ago

    I checked the stats for the last 4 years here and it looks really strange. Statistics isn’t my thing… But it looks like it’s wise to be cautious and not to fully trust the numbers.

    Around the beginning of last year there was a huge dip in the Windows market share that seemed to be correlating with a peek in “unknown”. Windows then catched up in a somewhat erratic matter.

    Mac OS also shows a weird behavior. Starts at 16%, up to 21% and the down to 14% between October and November…

    It’s not likely that a huge number of people decided to buy a Mac and then trash it I’ve month later. Samr but opposite goes for the windows stats.

    I think it looks like there is an uncertainty of more than the total market share Linux is shown to have…

    Not saying that Linux isn’t increasing on desktop market share. Just saying that numbers seen to have quite a bit error margin and to be cautious if referring to these numbers.

    • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
      19·
      3 months ago

      The count is from web visits somehow, so I don’t think so. You’d have to visit a web site that was contributing data for it to count.

      • nfh@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        3 months ago

        So every steam deck that visits the websites that track this counts? It’s probably not many, but it’s certainly likely there are a few counted.

    • helenslunch@feddit.nlEnglish
      91·
      3 months ago

      This website collects OS through the browser on website visits. But unless you’re browsing the web on Steam Deck on a regular basis, they’ll never register it.

    • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
      13·
      3 months ago

      It already is in the sense that you are expected to pay with ongoing access to all of your data.

  • Localhorst86@feddit.orgEnglish
    16·
    3 months ago

    Just two weeks ago, I switched over my main PC, my Laptop and my Lenovo Miix 2 to Manjaro Linux.

    This was single-handedly my doing is what I am trying to say.

      • Localhorst86@feddit.orgEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        Personally, I am going to stick with KDE - my main PC has 256GiB of memory (It’s a 2016 CAD workstation that I stuck a GTX 1080 in), so I really don’t care that much about memory. But even on my lower end bay-trail lenovo tablet, KDE doesn’t seem much worse than XFCE and by sticking with KDE, I don’t have to “learn” both Desktop environments. KDE came with it’s own drop-down terminal called Yakuake, btw. But I want to use the terminal as little as necessary.

        At first I installed Arch on my main rig, but I then decided to switch to manjaro because I am worried that Arch might be a bit more “volatile” when it comes to updates than a more “stable” distro like manjaro.

        My first experience with Linux was 15 years ago, when I switched to ubuntu Linux as my Laptop OS for 2 years, and within the first week of installing it, I saw the words “uninstalling gnome-desktop” appear during a distro-upgrade, and being a linux noob, reinstalling my system afterwards seemed to be the quicker sollution to the system rebooting to a shell only. I’d prefer that not happening again.

  • Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    2 months ago

    Couple weeks ago switched to Mint on my main rig. Since then I also installed Linux on my wifes old laptop. It works great, runs fast and it was 99% a painless transition. With my Steam Deck thats 3 Linux devices in our household.

    I wish I coud touch the win 11 on my work laptop as well.

    Also fuck Microsoft.

  • werefreeatlast@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    3 months ago

    Oh look how awesome windows 11 is going! Let me drag this Linux factoid onto my edge presentation, no I mean my power point that I have running on edge. I mean the edge in this teams running power point from this remote desktop running on edge thru a teams behind a VPN under an edge running power point running edge in teams running…10 years later…fuck this shit! I’m running Linux!

  • Brickardo@feddit.nlEnglish
    4·
    3 months ago

    Has anyone ever tried to carry out a stochastic analysis of the data? I’d never thought about it, but the webpage’s way of representing the data makes it seem like we’re watching the stock market.

    • Kerb@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      5·
      3 months ago

      $tux to the moon 🚀🌕
      im gonna yolo my entire portfolio on deep otm $mint calls

      puts on $win