Is this how the world finds out that it’s finally the year of the Linux desktop?
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THIS IS THE YEAR OF LINUX DESKTOP.
Yeah, I lost my girlfriend, so .. no judging please !
How much of that was furry porn?
The Steam Deck can run a browser, right?
Yeah, from my Debian VPN.
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.
Sorry everyone, that was me.
Wait no, it was Sims, he already fessed up. Yep totally him and not me.
22.4% of 5% base, so in actuality a 1% increase. While the title is technically accurate, it's very misleading.
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.
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.
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"?
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"
Well it is an increase of 22,4 percent but at the same time an increase of 1 percentage point. So both are correct. But as we know bigger number more better so thats what we got
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%.
Probably some data hoarders scraping that shit
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