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Linux market share passes 4% for first time; macOS dominance declines (arstechnica.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/linux@programming.dev
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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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[–] 60 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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

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    • [+] 53 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)
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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago (1 child)
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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    That's the biggest issue

    There are so many people in the community who attack developers.

    I had a open source project which I started, it got a lot of media attention but I gave it up because so much of the community is toxic and just made me feel unsure about developing the idea further.

    And lots of other developers are the same. Even with Lemmy, people weren't going to contribute, but they targeted the developers political beliefs.

    And I see so much crap talking on Lemmy here because developers choose to use GitHub or discord. If you don't like that, contribute to the project, but don't try to dictate the project you have no involvement in

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    I blame developers who use discord. The interface is a mess, the company is enshitifying, and you can’t archive the past.

    It maybe easier, but I question why anyone would willingly choose it over most anything else.

    Note that this is different from being a dick about it and harassing people.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    And the Linux / Unix-specific ecosystem & technology arguments therein.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah and good luck mentioning that macOS is UNIX.

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  • [+] -8 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    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.

    Anti Commercial-AI license

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    UNIX != open source.

    In fact, most flavours have historically been commercial and proprietary.

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  • [+] -6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It's built on top of BSD, which is opensource.

    Anti Commercial-AI license

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    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.

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    • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Dominance?! Ha!

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    • [–] 13 points 2 years ago

    Year of the Linux Desktop lfg!!

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    [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    YOTLD

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    [–] 12 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    You're 4 months late

    Also it went down to 3.77

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    • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    People like Theo De Raadt might have had a fairly huge impact on killing BSD.

    He might have alienated a lot of people from even considering bsd.

    The Linux community also had a lot of help by vendors such as Suse and Redhat who had no problems implementing good ideas which were a bit toxic, but were available in windows. Commercial venders can make a massive difference (as well as government deployments).

    The big problem has been people resistant to change

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    • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    IT'S THE YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP!

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    • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    @Blaze@lemmy.zip That's an old news article, from at least 3 months ago

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    [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    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...

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years 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

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    [–] 1 point 2 years 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?

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