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[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

There's an old thing "the thing that won the Video Format Wars was porn", because in the 80s, mail order and rental porn was very popular, and the easiest format (VHS) to buy and record onto won largely because of that.

Makes me wonder if we'll see the same for Operating Systems?

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[–] maj@piefed.social 20 points 3 days ago (6 children)

AI agents and web scrapers surely

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I'm doing my part

[–] Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 days ago (9 children)

Genuine curiosity from someone not deeply familiar with the details - what sort of operating systems fall under "Other" for desktops?

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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 3 days ago

Inadvertently contributed to this statistic lol

[–] somegeek@programming.dev 9 points 3 days ago

Linux usafe has surely grown, but I think a laege percentage of that are AI crawlers and shit like that.

[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 days ago

Link my friend?

[–] OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I want SteamOS to turn into a general purpose OS so I can shitcan Windows for good!

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Name me a feature SteamOS has that Bazzite doesn't.

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[–] Matriks404@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

People who use Linux probably just have less sex and watch porn instead ;)

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Could this just be AI scrapers running Linux?

[–] nagaram@startrek.website 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm more willing to bet this is VPN servers running linux

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[–] entwine@programming.dev 4 points 2 days ago

Wrong. If that were true, it wouldn't have suddenly gone up 22% this past year.

...I wonder, did something happen recently that might have led to an influx of incels/cucks/betas into the chad Linux community?

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[–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 8 points 3 days ago

I'm gonna fire up haiku and boost that other percentage

[–] RamRabbit@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

MacOS getting a little side action, too.

[–] Griffus@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 days ago

The Philippines has been a lot in the news lately, did not expect them to be an inspiration for the Linux world as well.

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