You know, I do wonder how many of these statistics are influenced by Linux users tendancy to use adblockers and block tracking. Linux could be more popular than it looks.
Also, they should tell us how much of that increase is due to the Steam Deck. :P
Unfortunately, due to the constant willful or untested shenanigans of various website I have set up all my system’s Firefox profiles to spoof by default its user agent (and other JavaScript properties) as Windows 11, x86_64, Firefox LTS (even if I use latest, Aurora or beta). Some blantant recent example: YouTube uses lower quality options on browsers running on Arm-based systems — misreporting as an x86 CPU appears to be a widespread browser fix
Doing so has helped me and many friends/family I switched to a flavor of Linux (mostly Mint, but sometimes LMDE or Ubuntu or specific requirements/demands) avoid numerous dumb problems.
Even on mobile sometimes UX breaking issues creep up.
An adblocker does not hide the os
True, btw I am on Windows 10 Chrome 😉
Found the closet Arch user
Year of the Steamdeck. Praise Gaben!
what is other? kaios, postmarketos?
Linux users are coming
I missed the “PornHub” in the corner at first. Maybe I won’t share this with colleagues…
A reasonable concern but also a shame, because data is data and PornHub has a massive userbase. I trust Backblaze stats for hard drives because they just have a shit-ton of real-world metrics. I’m inclined to trust PornHub stats for the same reason.
How many Steam deck users are looking up porn?
Nah, it was all me. All of it.
Haha Pornhub - proof that most visitors use Windows, and they’re a bunch of wankers.
Linux is cumming my friends. 🥳
I myself have gotten 2 friends to get a steam deck that otherwise would have gotten a windows laptop (or a switch =P), and am working on a 3rd
I hate when people say “oh we had 100% growth!” Ignoring the fact they went from 4 to 8 clients. Meanwhile the one that only shows 0.5% growth considers 8 people a rounding error.
There’s liars, damn liars and statisticians.
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1102/
I hate when people respond to a post with a little anecdote that is completely irrelevant to the original post.
I’ll feed the troll… it’s very relevant with the bottom part of the graphic. It’s touting that it’s got the biggest increase of traffic change at ~32%, however overall it still only has a 3.2% share. That ties in exactly what what I’m stating and the xkcd that was posted too. There was nothing anecdotal or that was irrelevant in my post.
2024 will be the year of the GNU/Linux desktop!
As will be every year after that
6.5% of all desktop users is insane
What’s other? Freebsd?
What about the streaming share? Like, who is watching the most?
Other: TempleOS
Blows my mind that 50% of mobile visitors are Apple, when 80% of the world uses Android (Though I guess Ph is probably more popular in anglo/european countries which uses more iPhones anyway)
