These people keep bringing up “mArKeT sHaRE”
- Linux is free. How would it get market share?
- It’s quite difficult to get an accurate “market share” since user-agents can be faked.
EDIT: I wonder if Microsoft are making anti-Linux accounts to try and hamper Linux.
Might seem a little far-fetched, but i’m going to go out on a limb here and say that the community that basically worships conspicuous consumption of electronics with complete disregard for e-waste and electrical consumption in support of being a better gamer, a consumer identity fabricated by marketing companies, and have thus turned it into an implicit contest might not be interested in practicality, liberty, nor freely available goods unless they’re the most visually appealing
Dude, the subreddit is named r/pcmasterrace. Even if they aren’t anti-Linux, maybe you shouldn’t take them too serious
Well duh. “PC” means “Windows”, obviously.
sigh
“PC” means “Desktop” /s
Actually, if we’re nit-picking, it means “Personal Computer”, but the colloquial meaning has shifted somewhat since the good old IBM times to first mean desktop computers (as opposed to laptops), and then to mean non-Apple computers (including laptops), which for most people means “a computer that runs Windows.”
Which is the basis of my heavy sigh.
>and then to mean non-Apple computers
I call Macs PCs to this day becouse of those ads
Linux is free. How would it get market share?
Not all Linux distributions are free. A market share can also be taken by a product which is free. It’s just a piece of the market.
You don’t count OS market share by the amount of money you spent for an OS (because then, MacOS would be free, since it’s technically given away bundled with Apple hardware) but by the number of installs.
Reddit is getting worse and worse. Not sure what happened, but it started losing it’s way around 2014-2015.
EDIT: I wonder if Microsoft are making anti-Linux accounts to try and hamper Linux.
Lol. No, they’re not. Really.
What kind of conspiracy theory is that, Microsoft really doesn’t feel threatened by Linux.
All I ever got for trying to help on that sub was called an elitist and have people go through my comment history to prove them selves and its the linux community thats toxic
/r/PCSlaveRace
Linux has the biggest market share if you consider servers and phones tho.
Why are you linking to reddit and not [email protected]?
