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Linux market share passes 4% for first time; macOS dominance declines (arstechnica.com)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17018864

I know this might be a couple months old, but I didn't know we already passed 4%.

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I've been a Mac user since the late 80s and the news of its dominance has escaped me.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago (1 children)

~15-20% is nothing to sneeze at, but hardly dominance

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

Dominance*

*- if you ignore the actual dominant party

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

A lot of people in unis over here use macs

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I'm interpreting that as clickbait - just something they added to the title to drive traffic.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Maybe dominant in the USA? People venerate Malus products there.

But any tech company provides Macs now, not Linux hardware. They even boast about it in their job ads and use it as bait.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Dominance?! Ha!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Yeah only makes sense if you call it "desktop *NIX dominance" or maybe just "non-Windows dominance."

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

Year of the Linux Desktop lfg!!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

You're 4 months late

Also it went down to 3.77

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

YOTLD

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

I love Linux but I wish the BSDs weren’t getting left behind.

For the record, I really like macOS and Apple products as my “consumer” devices but all my side projects, web servers, routers, etc. run Linux. I ran FreeBSD for a long time until I got into containerization and Docker.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

IT'S THE YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

@[email protected] That's an old news article, from at least 3 months ago

[–] Plavatos 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Count me in! Switched to Linux Mint for my DD last month.

Only thing I'm missing is a very dead simple 3D modeling replacement for the Windows one (the others have a steep learning curve). I'll have to find a browser based option...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

It's unfortunate that the Adobe suite is not on Linux. FreeCAD and Blender are the standard of 3D modeling on Linux but Adobe Web has been picking up steam lately.

If you have two computers you can add the program to Steam on Windows and Stream it.

If it's not very performance heavy then you could run it in a VM and use something like Dropbox or Mega to sync your work through the Internet.

If the files are very large I'm not sure, but I think you might be able to mount a shared filesystem that's used by both the VM and the Linux host

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Report: Linux was on 6.34 percent of computers last month if you count ChromeOS.

What are the reasons one wouldn’t count ChromeOS? I guess I don’t know much about it, is it somehow “less Linux” than your run of the mill Ubuntu/Debian, Arch, openSUSE, etc?