tucson.social
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • Create Community
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
Umbrella8335@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago

Linux Crosses 4% Market Share Worldwide

lemmy.world

message-square
38
link
fedilink
536

Linux Crosses 4% Market Share Worldwide

lemmy.world

Umbrella8335@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago
message-square
38
link
fedilink
  • cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    7
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    1 year ago

    Wait wait, have we been lied to… Does linux actually collect telemetry?

    • muhyb@programming.dev
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      13
      ·
      1 year ago

      They detect this from browsers, it’s not really accurate. For example, if you’re using LibreWolf, they’ll detect you as Windows 10.

      • Laurel Raven@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        11
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        1 year ago

        Which just means the real number is likely higher since Windows browsers are almost certainly not getting counted as Linux

        • nexussapphire@lemm.ee
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          6
          ·
          1 year ago

          Probably not. The majority of users use chrome or whatever their os comes with. There are edge cases but it would be the minority that think about privacy and such.

          I’m to lazy to worry about tracking so I install ublock, enable do not track in the settings of Firefox, and call it a day.

          • Cethin@lemmy.zip
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            4
            ·
            1 year ago

            It is probably more likely that a Linux users is detected incorrectly, but the percentage of users doing something to cause this is almost certainly small enough to ignore.

      • cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        1 year ago

        Thats what i thought, you can easily modify useragents

    • turkishdelight@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      10
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      It’s browser data, not telemetry.

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zip
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      8
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      Ubuntu does

      • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        arrow-down
        2
        ·
        1 year ago

        Good guy Ubuntu puts us on the radar.

    • nexussapphire@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      If you install edge!

Linux@lemmy.ml

linux@lemmy.ml

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: [email protected]

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word “Linux” in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

Rules

  • Posts must be relevant to operating systems running the Linux kernel. GNU/Linux or otherwise.
  • No misinformation
  • No NSFW content
  • No hate speech, bigotry, etc

Related Communities

  • [email protected]
  • [email protected]
  • [email protected]
  • [email protected]

Community icon by Alpár-Etele Méder, licensed under CC BY 3.0

Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 480 users / day
  • 2.5K users / week
  • 5.66K users / month
  • 16.2K users / 6 months
  • 4 local subscribers
  • 57.4K subscribers
  • 8.1K Posts
  • 198K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml
  • nooter692@lemmy.ml
  • MarcellusDrum@lemmy.ml
  • Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml
  • Cyclohexane@lemmy.ml
  • d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz
  • BE: 0.19.12
  • Modlog
  • Legal
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org