https://redd.it/v8l8vi

These people keep bringing up “mArKeT sHaRE”

  1. Linux is free. How would it get market share?
  2. 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.

  • BaumGeist@lemmy.ml
    33·
    2 years ago

    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

  • Helix 🧬@feddit.de
    20·
    2 years ago

    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.

      • rysiek@szmer.infoEnglish
        9·
        1 year ago

        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.

  • incici@lemmy.ml
    10·
    2 years ago

    Reddit is getting worse and worse. Not sure what happened, but it started losing it’s way around 2014-2015.

    • deepfriedwater@lemmygrad.ml
      5·
      2 years ago

      When they announced they would make their codebase proprietary it was definitely a turning point. In hindsight, you can clearly see a shift in their way of doing things from that point on.

  • PureTryOut@lemmy.kde.social
    6·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • Destide@feddit.uk
    3·
    1 year ago

    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