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Linux market share passes 4% for first time; macOS dominance declines (arstechnica.com)

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I know this might be a couple months old, but I didn't know we already passed 4%.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm thinking this comes from the consideration of taking imagery at the root of people's brains when they hear Linux. Reiterating elements of the Windows or Mac UI over the decades, even if they had small visual changes, enable a significantly large population of the world to imagine the desktop even just while mentioned in a passing. Anyone that doesn't use either of these OSes at least can have a basic imagery popping up about it due to constant advertising of the desktop via direct ads, support pages, tech websites using generic desktop images, screen shares, etc.

Linux is wild west in this regard. Everyone knows how Windows or MacOS looks like thanks to their abundant copies of descriptive bounty posters, but only other Linux users are familiar with other Linux desktops and that is usually as the names of fellow bounty hunters.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Yeah. When I think of Linux, I think of the terminal. It's the only constant over the years.

My septagenarian father thinks Linux looks like Linux Mint, because that's what I first set up for him, and that's what I walked him through installing on a new computer.

Viva la difference.