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Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA

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Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://ostechnix.com/linux-reaches-5-desktop-market-share-in-usa/

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  • enthusiasm_headquarters@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It doesn’t say how they got this number in the piece (unless I missed it), but it’s likely more than 5% if they are, say, counting the OS by user agent strings hitting a particular tracker. Linux distros use different browsers and they don’t report the OS in an accurate way all the time.

    For a long time my UAS just said “Firefox, the version #, NT-based” or something like that, but now it reports Linux properly… I haven’t been paranoid enough to use a agent switcher lately.

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  • url@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Current rig has dual boot Windows/fedora but even in the windows there’s a little WSL Ubuntu running sometimes so I guess I have way more Linux even though I use Windows more right now… I’m trying…

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  • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Iine go up diamond hands

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  • Sonicdemon86@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I will fully switch when installing mods are just as easy as windows. So far I haven’t found mod managers that work only for one or two games. I have switched mostly to pop os using plasma.

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    • Auth@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Which games? I know there are a few projects trying to improving linux modding.

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      • Sonicdemon86@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Oblivion remastered, stardew valley, fallout 4, or rimworld.

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    • ClassyHatter@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Modding might not be as easy as on Windows, but for example, Mod Organizer 2 works on Linux. Steam Tinker Launch helps with MO2 installation and usage. Wabbajack also works after some tinkering, but you’ll need to search the Internet to figure out how to get it working.

      I have recently played Fallout: New Vegas with Viva New Vegas modlist and Skyrim with Nordic Souls modlist under Linux. Took some tinkering to get the modding things working, and to figure out where each of the files are located, but other than those, the games worked fine.

      Once you go through the pain of getting one modding tool working, you can then use it with other games without the initial hassle.

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  • anachrohack@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The only things keeping my on Windows rn is Visual Studio and DirectX 11. Linux doesn't have C++ IDEs or a Graphics API that even comes close to these two

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    • voodooattack@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What

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    • doxxx@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’d argue that VSCode plus extensions is a decent replacement for Visual Studio and actually superior for many other text editing tasks that are not C++.

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    • herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Vulkan is absolutely amazing. It also runs LLMs these days almost as well as CUDA.

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  • Psythik@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Why does that website have the same layout as one of those AI-generated blogs that clogs up search results on DDG? It isn’t AI, but the design is almost identical.

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