Linux has nearly half of the desktop OS Linux market
www.theregister.com
It would be twice as much if people could stop arguing about who counts and who doesn't

Not mine but sounds like a showerthought to me. TL;DR ChromeOS is the “wrong” version of Linux and has 4% while GNU/Linux has 3%

  • parrot-party
    3•11 months ago

    Windows is also ridiculously good at backwards compatibility. Mac frequently just breaks old software and Linux is largely unconcerned because they assume anyone that cares will find a way. That backwards compatibility is over of the major keys to Windows success with developers.

    • mwqer
      1•11 months ago

      But Linux is good at backward compatibility tho. Linus Torvalds leadership made sure that very few if at all any changes to the kernel will break existing userland. This means that if you have a program with their needed dependencies in the right version (which is easy with docker/flatpak/appimage) your programs will run flawlessly even if they are from the 90s.

      • parrot-party
        1•11 months ago

        Though Linux the kernel might be stable and considerate, Linux the ecosystem is not.

      • AatubeOP
        1•11 months ago

        I’m pretty sure that’s just default userland and foreign packages still update frequently and kernel updates might’ve broken syscalls not used by default userland.