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.

    • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      201·
      4 months ago

      There are very legitimate usecases.

      Better offline translation, image descriptions for the less visually able, being able to search for specific images (e.g. going to the gallery app and searching for all your dog pics). This all could be done offline, privately, using ethically-sourced training data.

      Is that how Microsoft will use AI? Lmao of course not

      It’ll be used as a shitty chatbot that only exists to siphon your data and send it to Microsoft so they can target you with more ads, some of which will be pushed to you via that very same AI “assistant”.

      • PlexSheep@feddit.deEnglish
        1·
        4 months ago

        You have a point and I was a little too against it. Still, having offline AI will transform any PC into a heater, no?