Linux market share passes 4% for first time; macOS dominance declines
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%.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/03/linux-continues-growing-market-share-reaches-4-of-desktops/Open linkView original on lemmy.zip
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I've been a Mac user since the late 80s and the news of its dominance has escaped me.
~15-20% is nothing to sneeze at, but hardly dominance
Dominance*
*- if you ignore the actual dominant party
I'm interpreting that as clickbait - just something they added to the title to drive traffic.
A lot of people in unis over here use macs
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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I build my own jokes!
-LFS
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Whenever someone brings up distro wars in just remind them we're not using windows.
And the Linux / Unix-specific ecosystem & technology arguments therein.
Yeah and good luck mentioning that macOS is UNIX.
Because everybody knows who it's made by (one of the biggest corps who hates freedom). Just because one brick of a building is open source doesn't mean the entire building is great.
Might as well promote a Chinese Linux distro and ignore the possible implications of its source.
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UNIX != open source.
In fact, most flavours have historically been commercial and proprietary.
It's built on top of BSD, which is opensource.
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You responded to “macOS is UNIX” with “it’s not open source”. I’m just illustrating how these 2 things are not correlated.
In any case, macOS is based on OpenBSD. Even the original BSD, which OpenBSD is based on, was not initially open source.
Everything you said was a straw man.
I can’t vouch for what it’s based on but I’ve always read the first release of macOS (then Mac OS X) was based on FreeBSD 4.2, not OpenBSD.
😂 I can't help you if your reading comprehension is low dude.
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Here’s another one for you, my reading comprehension-challenged Internet friend.
macOS is actually UNIX 03 certified. It doesn’t get any more UNIX than that. 😉
https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/brand3700.htm
I think people like to say it isn’t simply because they don’t agree with Apple.
It’s UNIX but the way it’s set up both is and isn’t aligned with UNIX conventions, and it’s definitely off base with Linux despite the ease with which Linux utilities can be ported.
Linux is quite an oddball in the UNIX world, tbh. It’s the most popular these days, and the one I’m most familiar with, but most Linux OSs are a lot more GNU than they are UNIX.
Btw I use Debian
Dominance?! Ha!
Yeah only makes sense if you call it "desktop *NIX dominance" or maybe just "non-Windows dominance."
Year of the Linux Desktop lfg!!
You're 4 months late
Also it went down to 3.77
YOTLD
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.
IT'S THE YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP!
@[email protected] That's an old news article, from at least 3 months ago
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?
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...
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