Linux market share passes 4% for first time; macOS dominance declines
arstechnica.com
Report: Linux was on 6.34 percent of computers last month if you count ChromeOS.

We see the nearly 33-year-old OS’s market share growing 31.3 percent from June 2023, when we last reported on Linux market share, to February. Since June, Linux usage has mostly increased gradually. Overall, there’s been a big leap in usage compared to five years ago. In February 2019, Linux was reportedly on 1.58 percent of desktops globally.

  • TrickDacy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    4 months ago

    Some sites actively sabotage the user experience and usability if the OS is not identified as Windows

    Never heard of this and highly doubt it, but if it were true that’s 100% not a website I want to use, so they’d be doing me a favor.

    • mindlight@lemm.eeEnglish
      42·
      4 months ago

      You’re free to whatever opinion you might have but it’s not a secret that Google used to change their search page to a more limited one if you were using Firefox.

      Hence people created add-ons to change the User Agent to mimic Chrome when accessing Google.

      Edit: I just reread your comment and noticed that you only quoted the part about Windows.

      I’ll just let my comment remain but it’s okay that you’re having an opinion that spoofing OS when accessing websites is not needed.

          • TrickDacy@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            4 months ago

            I’ve been daily driving Linux for over 3 years and don’t remember ever seeing it. And as a web developer I know the only way that would happen is if a shitty business decision mandated it.

            • jaemo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              1·
              4 months ago

              Gonna second you in this one. My Manjaro box is what I run to as a gold standard if one of my families windows machines using Chrome fails to load something. It’s consistent, reliable and fast. What I think is missing from this conversation is: wired or wifi. One of the reasons the Linux machine is the yardstick is that it’s not using wifi; never had a first page load fail.

              Slack on Linux however… Eesh. Never had an app so reluctant to launch.