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Linux Breaks 5% Desktop Share in U.S., Signaling Open-Source Surge Against Windows and macOS (www.webpronews.com)

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[–] uawarebrah@sh.itjust.works 20 points 2 days ago (3 children)

This is really market share against Microsoft, not Mac. For good reason too, Microsoft is working very hard to ruin their company. They’re losing a lot of ground to Mac as well, especially in the small business sector where many things are web based now anyways. Run an MSP and we’ve had quite a few clients get fed up with inconsistent updates and repeated dumb problems.. looking at you WSD and printing.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They went from 98% to 70%

70% is a lot but the completion is starting to slowly gain up. If companies like Google and Apple made something good Microsoft would be in serious trouble.

[–] Mio@feddit.nu 1 points 15 hours ago

Apple did by releasing ARM based CPUs for desktop. This means they also change to MAC OS. Hence no longer 98% market share.

Now the future is ARM, desktop, laptop and mobile. Windows have hard time bringing over all their legacy software over to ARM. Their legacy compability is their biggest strength that they now have to get rid of or rebuild.

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh don’t worry. Apple has been working very hard on enshitifyjng their OS. They just don’t get reported on as much as Microsoft.

[–] salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I worked for an MSP that supported an all-Mac environment. Got real tired of telling people that their problem was a well-known bug in Mac that Apple has ignored for over 10 years and would probably never be fixed. I had to give that explanation a lot, for many different issues.

At least with Windows people expect problems like that. Mac people refuse to believe anything could possibly be Apple's fault.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

I had a Mac user chew me out for putting on a non-Apple mouse that JUST DOESN'T WORK ON MAC!!!1! Found out that he'd used the non-Apple mouse fine for about a month, then changed his desk to one with a glass top, and wasn't using a mousepad. So the laser just shot through the clear glass and did fuck-all. Didn't even have the decency to look abashed when I tossed a magazine down as a mousepad for him until we could get him some artist-approved mousepad bullshit. Fucking ad agencies are full of twats.

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

where many things are web based now anyways

https://xkcd.com/934/

[–] someacnt@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Wait, Randall knows about xmonad?

[–] not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

I don't know about xmonad, but let's assume Randall knows everything.