Statcounter: OS Stats ...also linux is for porn


I have to say I expected desktop linux to at least be 3%, just a bit behind os x. I guess it puts into perspective of how small the linux desktop community is…

0.7% is somewhat in line with steams stats at 0.55%. Its not very clear on what it does and doesn’t count as Linux. Android is Linux but has its own category, but windows is lumped in one category, does Linux include chromebooks? Specific distros? whats the unknown?

in any case, its crazy that there’s 3% of people visiting these sites using windows XP.

Also just about every server runs linux. So if we added that into the mix it would be a lot higher as well.

I found this curious wiki article which states that statcounter counts linux but excludes chromebooks and windows excludes xbox.


It shouldn’t be excluding chromebooks since they are literally Linux “desktops”, im not sure why anyone would make that decision.

That’s not accurate. many people can be using agent spofers. The 2.66% is probably Linux and some BSD in there. Pornhub stats look more accurate to me. Scrool down about half way through and you see that linux is at 3%.
https://www.pornhub.com/insights/2017-year-in-review

It could be that those extra % are windows users who switch to linux when browsing porn.

steam 0.55%
statcounter 0.77%
pornhub 3%

Linux is for porn: CONFIRMED

Now we know Linus Torvlads’s true intentions… that sick finnish man.

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I would advance the theory, and don’t all jump down my throat on this one now, that the higher representation on Pornhub might, just perhaps, be due to Linux users being less likely to have girlfriends.

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Why? Linux is really good a being a server environment.

It has no support for software or the illiterate users. Has half ass support for modern hardware and features.

For normal users, Linux is guaranteed some catastrophic failure on first install/boot. Touchpad, WiFi, Backlight Brightness, Sound Input and Output, WIreless Printers, Video/graphics/multi-monitors/freesync, Games, Codecs… And what about familiar productivity software?

I don’t know why we expect linux to take off in its current state. Its built by nerds for nerds.

/rant

Why would they do that? Switching to linux does not make your online activities anonymous.
@Ruffalo I don’t have a girlfriend and I’m on windows.

There really isn’t that large of a number of people that are Linux only with all of their devices if you exclude anything Google from the Linux column. Many people spend quite a lot of time on the internet on their non-Linux phones. Many Linux users dual boot, have multiple machines with at least one using Windows or Mac, or have work machines that are non-Linux.

I know from the Steam survey that it is very inaccurate. I don’t know how much it has changed recently, but when I started using Linux you had to spend $10 in the previous month to get a survey. It would come early the next month on whatever machine you happened to log in to Steam. My first few months of using Linux I ran two separate machines and started building my Linux library, so I would purposely avoid using Steam on Windows until after I got the survey on my Linux box. A few months later I stopped using Windows.

In any event, my point is that the Steam survey doesn’t accurately depict how many people use Linux as much as how many people bought $10 from them (or whatever metrics used now trigger them getting the survey) and logged in to Steam under Linux when the survey comes out. It may be pretty accurate as to how many people game mostly on each platform, but not how many people use each platform or how much time they spend in each ecosystem.

The same mostly goes for other surveys, except that those surveys probably pull info from other places, and represents the users of those sites. And as mentioned above, user agent spoofing. In any event, a few percent one way or the other in a survey doesn’t change reality for the Linux desktop.

Probably because most the malicious stuff they are going to run into is going to be aimed at Windows systems.

Yer the windows users have better jobs and just do hookers behind their girlfriends backs. We open source and settle for porn :stuck_out_tongue:

Or just stay in linux all the time and you won’t have to reboot. :wink:

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https://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?options={“filter”%3A{"%24and"%3A[{“deviceType”%3A{"%24in"%3A[“Desktop%2Flaptop”]}}]}%2C"dateLabel"%3A"Trend"%2C"attributes"%3A"share"%2C"group"%3A"platform"%2C"sort"%3A{“share”%3A-1}%2C"id"%3A"platformsDesktop"%2C"dateInterval"%3A"Monthly"%2C"dateStart"%3A"2017-05"%2C"dateEnd"%3A"2018-04"%2C"segments"%3A"-1000"}

This ones says 2.29% at the moment.

Got distracted at work…

Saw this graphic:

you-gotta-pump-those-numbers-up-those-are-rookie-numbers

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Those Filipinos have a lot of time on their hands.

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Time… is that what we are calling that now?!

I might be able to break 10mins :frowning:

This is getting out of hand, what started off as a simple joke has turned in the thread’s subject.

Someone Please Close This Thread!