EDIT (2025-12-19T09:08Z): Whoops! I totally didn't see that this had already been posted to this community ^[2]^. I didn't mean to repost it. My bad!

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  1. Type: Image. Title: "Traffic by Operating System". Publisher: ["Pornhub">"2025 YEAR IN REVIEW"]. Published: 2025-12-03. Accessed: 2025-12-16T23:00Z. URI: https://www.pornhub.com/insights/2025-year-in-review.
    • Location: §"Traffic by Operating System".
  2. Type: Post. Title: "Linux traffic has grown 22.4% in PH this year". Author: "maam" ("@maam@feddit.uk"). Publisher: ["sh.itjust.works">"Linux" ("!linux@programming.dev")]. Published: 2025-12-09T1;31:57Z. Accessed: 2025-12-19T09:10Z. URI: https://sh.itjust.works/post/51299445.

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[–] 114 points 10 months ago (12 children)

Is this how the world finds out that it’s finally the year of the Linux desktop?

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  • [+] 72 points 10 months ago (11 children)
  • [–] 23 points 10 months ago (10 children)

    Something about porn leading the way, something about DVDs winning, something about VHS winning.

    All of that doesn't matter.
    Because Linux desktop (in my experience, KDE Plasma and Wayland) along with distros that do sensible things (I use EndeavourOS btw) are just SO much better that Windows.
    I only boot windows for software I have to run windows with fullscreen or GPU based software that doesn't exist on linux

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  • [–] -1 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    Why do you think Wayland is better than x11?

    Mostly asking from a user experience angle. I know Wayland supports some features x11 doesn’t. What I’ve read also makes x11’s code sound like a big mess, but that doesn’t seem to be a problem for usability.

    I’ve struggled a bit with getting games to run after moving to pop os 24.04 from 22.04 and I think the problems are Wayland related for much of it, but I haven’t tried other distros to rule out cosmic.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Wayland is a "new" windowing system so not all software support it, or look the same as on X11.

    From what I understand, Wayland will support many new features but is under continuous development.

    One of the examples of Wayland modernity is that Waydroid allows users to run Android apps but require Wayland to be able to. It's kind of in the name I suppose.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Eh, we could talk about security and the ancientness of X11, but the fact is wayland is where the dev is happening , you may lag a bit with LTS kernels, but it'll get there.

    Still wish I could cast an apps window to another machine (someone got a way with wayland) but otherwise with a modern kernel it significantly outperforms X. Give Bazzite a whirl, you'll see.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    Security mostly. X11 was initial used with a central server and people logged on from clients the X11 system allows easily sending your display to another computer screen by IP address. Most distros turn off X11 forwarding, but some have it open. Its a way to share screens, but also a way a remote attacker could compromise your system and watch everything you do.

    Wayland is a prototol. devs are using that protocol to build a new windowing GUI. It is secure by design

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    Hey man, he didn’t say any of that! Weird thing to bring up

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    I was just asking because he explicitly said wayland (and not x11)

    Is it a bad question to ask? I'm trying to learn and understand the reason why.

    Some minor performance gains seem to be the tangible improvement thus far, but that assumes the application will be compatible with it. The rest is I hear is security and "active development" alongside the difficulties.

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  • [–] 23 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    THIS IS THE YEAR OF LINUX DESKTOP.

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  • [–] 31 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Yeah, I lost my girlfriend, so .. no judging please !

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  • [–] 15 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    How much of that was furry porn?

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  • [–] 14 points 10 months ago

    Sorry guys, it was just me

    /Jk

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  • [–] 24 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    The Steam Deck can run a browser, right?

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    cool and all but what % of people watch porn on their “big screen”? hard for me to remember that last time I wanked it at a desktop. shit, it might have been at work which would require windows.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    Sorry everyone, that was me.

    Wait no, it was Sims, he already fessed up. Yep totally him and not me.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    Weird tug of war

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Coomers! Assemble!

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Gooners' choice

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Lots of pirating going on...

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    How else do we get the data to train our Language and Vision models?

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    22.4% of 5% base, so in actuality a 1% increase. While the title is technically accurate, it's very misleading.

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  • [–] 13 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    A percentage increase is a relative increase. The thing you're thinking of would be described as "percentage points".

    It's somewhat misleading to talk about a large percentage increase on a small base, though.

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  • [–] 25 points 10 months ago

    It's not at all misleading. That's how percantages work. It plainly says '+22.4%', which is fully factual and accurate. Your 'actual 1% increase' is a false statement. It's a 1 percentage point increase, which is completely separate from the regular percantage.

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  • [–] [S] 11 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    I'm struggling to understand why you think the title is misleading. Could you elaborate on your rationale to help me understand? 🙂

    Do you perhaps have an alternative title that you would suggest? Would you be satisfied by something like, for example, "Pornhub saw a 22.4% increase in Linux traffic (from [e.g.] 5% to ~6%) over 2025"?

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    Sure! As is currently written, it gives the first impression (to me, at least) that the traffic share of Linux has jumped from x% to (x+22)%. Now I understand that this is subjective, but I believe that's how many people would read it at first glance as well.

    Again, there's nothing technically inaccurate about it, but the 22% number there is imo distracting and tends to lead to misunderstandings. I would personally write it as "Pornhub sees Linux traffic share increase from 5% to 6% (22.4% increase) over 2025"

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    Nah mate, it's very much exactly what it says. A ambiguous statement would be "Share of Linux devices on pornhub grew by 22.5%" which could be either in relative or absolute terms. Traffic increase is pretty much number of requests made from a Linux machine grew by 22.5%.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Probably some data hoarders scraping that shit

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