That must be a mistake. Are there any Finish people on Lemmy? I'd like to know if they are observing this on the ground, because honestly, if every 4th person had Linux there it would be somewhat visible. Even non-techies in the family or friend circle would mention it or ask about switching to it, or there would be a popular store to buy stuff with linux pre-installed.

Anti Commercial-AI license

Wow, that’s crazy. Any particular reason for that?

Wow! What caused that? Orange man?

Look at the computer to your left. Now look at the computer to your right. Now look at the computers in 18 other directions. ONE OF THOSE COMPUTERS IS A LINUX.

Yes the important server computer is Linux, and the others are something else.

No, Statcounter measures usage; not machines.

Fuck, is this AI again?

It tracks along the lines of all the other linux usage stats. The actual % is a bit different by the trends all show growth. PH released 5% linux usage on the desktop. US Gov released 5% linux usage on desktop. If it included web crawlers and AI scrapers the % would be like 80% since thats the majority of internet traffic.

I've seen a lot of machines running Linux in the last year or two

, but with a little attitude solving

pot name kettle.

When was the last time you used a Linux distro? 2005? Some desktops have had one-click updates since about that year, there are pretty good GUIs (that you don't like them because they are in a terminal is a terminalWindowsism) and the "terminal matrix speak" is just knowing what you are talking about. You do know at least something about the parts of the car you drive, do you not?

The one big thing I grant is the double-click idioms, because at least in my experience it's where lots of systems tend to clash against each other. A given app registers double click actions for certain files, then the browser does the same for those files, then Wine / Flatpak steals that association too... in the end you almost never know who is going to open your files in modern Linux unless you context-click specifically. It's the one aspect on the list I'd say Linux has regressed since 2015.

I understand that's how things are, but man, what a sorry state of affairs. CLIs used to be the ONLY way to use computers, and common people wrote programs all the time! It was part of normal school curriculum for fucks sake. My mom was required to learn BASIC in high school. Nothing even close to that now. Schools MAYBE have some intro programming elective, if they're lucky.

We've managed to deskill multiple generations of computer users, and it gets worse every single year. More and more people only understand to scroll and press big buttons, with cognition of any sort being completely absent. Just monkeys in a cage created by corporations. It's heartbreaking, really.

Yeah I recently installed Signal on my kubuntu machine and the Signal website only showed how to install it via CLI no mentioning of the Discover or Snap store. My parents, who only started using the computer for the first time after their 60’s, are definitely not able to install it if they forget that the stores exist and a website tells them to use the CLI as the only option.

Like the front ends exist application makers just need to point people to it if they want Linux adoption to improve.

The best part of Linux is that it comes from servers/embedded

You don't need any specific software or GUI. It is modular and performant.

I don't know man... Once you get used to firing up a terminal and typing "flatpak install whatever" and it just installing in a few seconds, it's hard to go back.

• OS X: Holds 16.57%.
• macOS: Accounts for 7.72%. (It's worth noting that some data reporting issues mean OS X and macOS are sometimes split, even though macOS is the newer branding for OS X. When combined, Apple's desktop presence is around 24%).

So not to be confused with iOS. Which if this is just counting desktops, then that shouldn’t apply.

So are android and Linux.

It's just how the site does things.

You are delusional if you genuinely believe that link is stopping any AI scraper.